Paul Bettany
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Harlesden, London, England, UK
A former Westminster Bridge busker who shot to fame in such stateside efforts as A Knight's Tale and A Beautiful Mind (both 2001), actor Paul Bettany's willingness to challenge himself by jumping genres has given him rare exposure on both sides of the Atlantic. Born in London, Bettany was raised in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire from age nine. Introduced to acting by his father (a teacher and ex-actor who gave up the stage for the classroom) and fueled by a love of cinema (Casablanca [1942] and Brief Encounter [1945] provided Bettany with early inspiration), the aspiring actor would subsequently pursue studies at London's Drama Center. Though the popular misconception that he was raised in a "theater family" continues to shadow the actor, Bettany has publicly stated that, by the time he was around, his father was working as a teacher and his mother's days as a singer were long behind her. Following his stage debut in the West End production of An Inspector Calls, it wasn't long before Bettany made his television debut in the U.K. mystery series Wycliffe in 1994; and his feature debut in 1997's harrowing war drama Bent showed much promise. Alternating between film and television work with such efforts as The Land Girls (1997) and Coming Home (1998) in the following years, Bettany continued to climb the credits until his breakthrough performance in 2000's Gangster No. 1. Though Bettany would return to the role of supporting player for Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) (2000), that same year's depraved black comedy Dead Babies once again found him taking the lead. The following year would introduce the talented young actor to American audiences in the adventure comedy A Knight's Tale, as well as in the biopic A Beautiful Mind, in which he played the college roommate of troubled mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe). In addition to providing him with an introduction to future wife Jennifer Connelly (the couple would wed in January of 2003), the film made an impact with American audiences. That same year Bettany appearred opposite Willem Dafoe in The Reckoning, and a supporting performance in director Lars von Trier's 2003 thriller Dogville kept audiences hungering for more. Later re-teaming with A Beautiful Mind co-star Crowe for director Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Bettany would next make his first foray into romantic comedy territory opposite Kirsten Dunst in Wimbledon. Action/adventure roles would prove to be a bread and butter for Bettany as the 2000's continued, with roles in Firewall, The Da Vinci Code, Inkheart, The Tourist, Priest, and even a turn as the voice of Jarvis in Iron Man (a role he would return to for subsuquent sequels, as well as The Avengers).
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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82% | Official Secrets |
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— | 2019 |
69% | Solo: A Star Wars Story |
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— | 2018 |
85% | Avengers: Infinity War |
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$665M | 2018 |
91% | Journey's End |
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— | 2018 |
90% | Captain America: Civil War |
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$408.1M | 2016 |
61% | Legend |
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$14.2M | 2015 |
46% | Shelter |
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— | 2015 |
76% | Avengers: Age of Ultron |
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$429.2M | 2015 |
12% | Mortdecai |
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$6.9M | 2015 |
19% | Transcendence |
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$23.1M | 2014 |
55% | Blood |
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— | 2013 |
79% | Iron Man 3 |
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$409M | 2013 |
33% | A Man's Story |
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— | 2012 |
87% | Margin Call |
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$0.7M | 2011 |
15% | Priest |
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$29.1M | 2011 |
20% | The Tourist |
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$67.7M | 2010 |
72% | Iron Man 2 |
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$312.1M | 2010 |
19% | Legion |
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$40.2M | 2010 |
46% | Creation |
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$0.3M | 2010 |
76% | The Young Victoria |
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$10.9M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Born |
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— | 2009 |
39% | Inkheart |
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$17.3M | 2009 |
59% | The Secret Life of Bees |
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$37.7M | 2008 |
56% | Broken Lines |
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— | 2008 |
26% | The Da Vinci Code |
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$217.6M | 2006 |
18% | Firewall |
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$48.7M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Stories of Lost Souls |
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— | 2005 |
61% | Wimbledon |
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$16.9M | 2004 |
39% | The Reckoning |
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— | 2004 |
85% | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
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$92.2M | 2003 |
48% | The Heart of Me |
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— | 2003 |
70% | Dogville |
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$1.5M | 2003 |
74% | A Beautiful Mind |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) |
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— | 2001 |
59% | A Knight's Tale |
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$55.1M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Mood Swingers |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | The Suicide Club |
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— | 2000 |
71% | Gangster No. 1 |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Dead Babies |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | After the Rain |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Every Woman Knows a Secret |
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— | 1999 |
61% | The Land Girls |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Killer Net |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Coming Home |
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— | 1998 |
73% | Bent |
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— | 1997 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Assembled
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No Score Yet |
Marvel Studios: Assembled
2021
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No Score Yet |
Marvel Studios: Legends
2021
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91% |
WandaVision
2021
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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96% |
Manhunt
2017-2020
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No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen
2009
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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No Score Yet |
Rachael Ray
2006
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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No Score Yet |
Talking Dead
2011-2020
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No Score Yet |
Tavis Smiley
2013-2018
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
2015
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No Score Yet |
Charlie Rose
2013-2017
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
Chelsea Lately
2007-2014
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
Last Call With Carson Daly
2007-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2008-2010
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Quotes from Paul Bettany's Characters
Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch: | I'm sorry... |
Vision: | If you do this, they will never stop being afraid of you. |
Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch: | I can't control their fear, only my own. |
Steve Rogers/Captain America: | You're saying it's our fault? |
Vision: | I'm saying there may be a causality. Our very strenght invites challange, challange incites conflict, and conflict... Breeds catastrophy. |
Vision: | I'm saying there may be a causality. Our very strenght invites challange, challange incites conflict, and conflict... breeds catastrophy. |
Vision: | I'm saying there may be a causality. Our very strength invites challange, challange incites conflict, and conflict... breeds catastrophy. |
Vision: | Alternatively, we can order a pizza. |
Vision: | If you do this, they will never stop being afraid of you. |
Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch: | I can't control their fear, only my own. |
Vision: | A pinch of Paprika. |
Ultron: | You are unbearably naive! |
The Vision: | Well, I was born yesterday. |
Tony Stark: | Jarvis ware's my flight power? |
Tony Stark: | Jarvis where's my flight power? |
Jarvis: | Working on it sir, this is a prototype. |
Jarvis: | The barrier is pure energy. It's unbreachable. |
The Vision: | I'm not Jarvis, I'm not Ultron. I am! |
The Vision: | Well, I was born yesterday. |
Ultron: | The world needed a shield... Stark settled for a slave. |
The Vision: | Human beings are fearful and in need of protection. But then, that fear can inspire them to do great things. |
Ultron: | You're unbelievably naïve. |
The Vision: | Well, I was born yesterday. |
Scarlet Witch: | I looked inside your mind and I saw destruction. |
The Vision: | Look again. |
Max Waters: | I spent my life trying to reduce the brain to a series of electrical impulses. I failed. Human emotion... It can contain illogical conflict. Can love someone and yet hate the things that they've done. Machine can't reconcile that. |
Jarvis: | Sir, the Mark VII is not ready for deployment. |
Tony Stark/Iron Man: | Well then skip the spinning rims, we're on the clock! |
Evelyn: | We can upload his consciousness. We can save him... |
Max Waters: | Not like this... Assuming that this works, if we miss anything, a thought, a childhood memory, how would you know whom we're dealing with? |
Max Waters: | I'll need to put a few more guys on this job. |
Max Waters: | Are you sure about this? |
Dr. Will Caster: | Good enough for the monkey. |
Tony Stark/Iron Man: | Jarvis, target Extremis heat signatures. Disable with extreme prejudice. . |
Jarvis: | [echoing through the suits] Yes, sir... |
Jarvis: | Good evening, Colonel. Can I give you a lift? |
Colonel James Rhodes: | Very funny. |
Charles Herman: | The prodigonal roommate has arrived... |
James "Rhodey" Rhodes: | Tony! Give me a suit *opens arms wide* |
James "Rhodey" Rhodes: | Tony! Give me a suit. |
Colonel James Rhodes: | Give me a suit. |
Tony Stark/Iron Man: | Uhm.. Yeah. These suits are only coded to me. |
Tony Stark/Iron Man: | Uhm. Yeah. These suits are only coded to me. |
Tony Stark: | Sorry, they're only coded to me. Don't worry, I got you covered. |
James "Rhodey" Rhodes: | You gotta be kidding me.... Seriously? |
James "Rhodey" Rhodes: | You gotta be kidding me. Seriously? |
Jarvis: | Good evening, Colonel. Can I give you a lift? |
Colonel James Rhodes: | Very funny. |
Peter Colt: | Lizzie, you can't switch me on-and-off like a god damn light bulb. |
Peter Colt: | There's so much to say! |
Tom Edison: | Maybe people just regard things a criminal because they envy their success. |
Tom Edison: | It's quite a blow to me to see all my friends act this way--so uncivilized. |
Liz Henson: | Honestly, Tom, you've done it again. Made us come here to listen to a lot of nonsense. Who do you think you are? Some kind of philosopher? |
Tom Edison: | Observant, that's what I am. |
Ma Ginger: | Lazy, I would say. |
Nicholas: | You soothe your conscience with grand phrases, but it's a weak, contemptible man who trades in the lives of others. |
Martin: | For heaven's sake, we're actors, not judges. |
Nicholas: | That's exactly what we have become. |
Dr. Stephen Maturin: | Jack, I fear you have burdened me with a debt I can never fully repay. |
Captain Jack Aubrey: | Name a shrub after me. Something prickly and hard to eradicate. |
Capt. Jack Aubrey: | Name a shrub after me. Something prickly and hard to eradicate. |
Dr. Stephen Maturin: | A shrub? Nonsense! I shall name a new species of tortoise after you: Testudo Aubrey! |
Dr. Stephen Maturin: | A shrub? Nonsense! I shall name a new species of tortoise after you: Testudo Aubreii! |
Will Emerson: | "I'm all out of nicorettes, which means in about ten minutes I'm going to kill somebody." |
Will Emerson: | I'm all out of nicorettes, which means in about ten minutes I'm going to kill somebody. |
Will Emerson: | "Some people like taking the long way home." |
Will Emerson: | Some people like taking the long way home. |
Tony Stark: | Jarvis, have you ever heard the tale of Jonah? |
Jarvis: | I wouldn't consider him a role-model, sir. |
Jarvis: | Power to four-hundred percent capacity. |
Tony Stark/Iron Man: | How about that? |
Silas: | I am a ghost. |
Silas: | Lord give me strengh. |
Jarvis: | Shall I call Miss Potts, sir? |
Tony Stark/Iron Man: | You might as well. |
Jarvis: | We will lose power before you cut through that shell. |
Tony Stark/Iron Man: | Jarvis, you ever here of the tale of Jonah? |
Jarvis: | Sir, I wouldn't think of him as a role model! |
Jarvis: | 400% power. |
Tony Stark/Iron Man: | how about that! |
Tony Stark/Iron Man: | How about that! |
Priest: | You've got your gun loaded? |
Hicks: | Why? |
Priest: | You're gonna need it. |
Chaucer: | [keeping time with a stick as William and Wat dance] And one, two, and three and four and your hands should be light like a birdy on a branch. And one, two, and three and four and Wat doesn't lead. He follows like a girl. |
Wat: | [looks at William] |
William Thatcher: | [shrugs in agreement with Chaucer] |
Wat: | [laughs a bit, then punches Chaucer in the nose] |
Chaucer: | [with some bloody cotton up his nose moments later, conducting William and Wat] And one, two and twirly, twirly, twirly. One and two and you're still getting it wrong. And one, two, and three and four. You can hit me all day cause you punch like a what? |
Roland: | A girl. |
Monsignor Chamberlain: | Remember your vow, to go against the church is to go against god. |
Priest: | Then I go against god. |
Priest: | Is this the world I fought for? |
Monsignor Chamberlain: | No, it the only world we have left. |
Monsignor Chamberlain: | Remember, 'To go with the church, is to go against God'. |
Priest: | Then I go against God. |
Monsignor Orelas: | THE WAR IS OVER, PRIEST! |
Priest: | No, it is JUST beginning! |
Monsignor Chamberlain: | Remember 'to go with the church is to go against God'. |
Priest: | Then I go against God. |
Will Emerson: | to Seth: If you really want to do this with your life you have to believe that you're necessary, and you are. People want to live like this with their cars and their big fucking houses they can't even pay for - then you're necessary. The only reason people get to continue living like kings is because we've got our fingers on the scales and we're tipping in their favor. I take my hand off, well then the whole world gets really fucking fair really fucking quick and nobody actually wants that. They say they do, but they really don't. They want what we have to give but they also want to play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it actually came from; and that's more hypocrisy than I'm willing to swallow, so fuck 'em. |
Will Emerson: | [to Seth] If you really want to do this with your life you have to believe that you're necessary, and you are. People want to live like this with their cars and their big fucking houses they can't even pay for - then you're necessary. The only reason people get to continue living like kings is because we've got our fingers on the scales and we're tipping in their favor. I take my hand off, well then the whole world gets really fucking fair really fucking quick and nobody actually wants that. They say they do, but they really don't. They want what we have to give but they also want to play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it actually came from; and that's more hypocrisy than I'm willing to swallow, so fuck 'em. |
John Forbes Nash Jr.: | Well, I met a girl. |
Charles Herman: | No! A human girl? |
John Forbes Nash Jr.: | Homo sapien. |
Charles Herman: | A biped? |
John Forbes Nash Jr.: | Yep. And, contrary to all probabilities, she finds me attractive on a number of different levels. |
Charles Herman: | "Nothing's ever for sure, it's the only sure thing I know" |
Charles Herman: | Nothing's ever for sure, John. That's the only sure thing I do know. |
Inspector John Acheson: | Well, He won't be dueling tonight" |
Inspector John Acheson: | Well, he won't be dueling tonight. |
Priest: | "save your bullets" |
Priest: | Save your bullets. |
Priest: | What good is that faith when it's a lie. |
Priest: | Shhhh. It's a trap. |
Priest: | I have questions and doubts. |
Michael: | When God chose your kind as the object of His love, I was the first in all of heaven to bow down before you. My love, my hope for mankind was no less than His. But I have watched you trample that gift. I have watched you kill each other over race and greed... waging war over dust and rubble and the words in old books. And yet, in the midst of all this darkness, I see some people who will not be bowed. I see some people who will not give up, even when they know all hope is lost. Some people, who realize being lost is so close to being found. I see you, Jeep. Fifteen years old, your mother leaves. Your father withdraws from the world and you spend the next five years of your young life helping him find his way home. You love a woman who bears the child of another and you love her with no thought of yourself, even though you know she may never love you the way you love her. You, Jeep... you are the reason I still have faith. |
Inspector John Acheson: | This is exactly why she chose him. To distract us. |