Paul Hilton (actor)

Paul Hilton (born 1970) is an English actor on stage, radio, and TV. He is an alumnus of the Welsh College of Music & Drama.

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Hilton was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1970.^[1][2] He trained at the Welsh College of Music & Drama.

Hilton's work ranges from radio drama, television series and features, as well as film and theatre.

Hilton starred as William Palmer in the Pilgrim radio dramas on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play series and appeared in TV programmes including Garrow's Law (as freethinker Joseph Hamer), The Bill, Silent Witness, Wire in the Blood, Midsomer Murders (in the episode "The Oblong Murders"), Robin Hood, and has had regular character roles in True Dare Kiss (as Dennis Tyler) and Casualty 1909 (as Henry Percy Dean).

Hilton also appeared in the film Klimt and as Mr. Earnshaw Snr. in Andrea Arnold's 2011 adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

In 2010, he appeared as Sandy in Mark Haddon's play Polar Bears at the Donmar Warehouse,^[3] and in 2011 played the title role in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus at Shakespeare's Globe.^[4] In July 2015, he was part of the premiere cast of Damon Albarn's new musical Wonder.land at the Manchester International Festival.^[5] For director Rufus Norris he was The Boson in Lucy Kirkwood's Mosquitoes (2017) at London's National Theatre.^[6]

He played the character of The Fool in the Deep Time Walk Mobile Guide, produced in 2016/7 by Jeremy Mortimer.^{[citation needed]}

He appeared as Alexander, the husband of the protagonist Katherine (played by Florence Pugh) in the 2016 film Lady Macbeth, which transposed the action of the novel by Nikolai Leskov to the Northeast of England.

In 2017, he starred in the title role in a National Theatre Live production of Peter Pan.^[1]

He played the part of David Holmes in the television drama series A Very English Scandal, based upon John Preston's non-fiction book about the Thorpe affair.

In 2018, Hilton played E.M. Forster in the world premiere of Matthew Lopez's play The Inheritance at London's Young Vic, reprising his role in the West End and Broadway transfers. In 2020, he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play, a Drama League Award nomination for Distinguished Performance, and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for his performance.^[7]

In 2023 and 2024, he played Father Manders in Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.^[8]

From September until November 2024, he starred as 'Joxer' Daly in Juno and the Paycock at the Gielgud Theatre.^[9]

Hilton is married to English actress and ceramicist Anastasia Hille from Lambeth, London. They have one child and live in Sussex.

• Paul Hilton at IMDb
• Paul Hilton at the Internet Broadway Database