Paapa Essiedu

Paapa Essiedu
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 14 (Actor)
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The Miniaturist
The Miniaturist (2017) - TV Mini-Series
A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
Kiri
Kiri (2018) - TV Mini-Series
A drama dealing with the abduction and murder of a young black girl, soon to be adopted by her white foster family, and the trail of lies, blame, guilt and notoriety which follow. (imdb)
Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet
Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality.
Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear
King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. A proud man, he allows vanity to cloud his judgment, believing that he can relinquish the crown, but enjoy the same authority and respect he has always known. Misjudging his children's loyalty he soon finds himself stripped of all the trappings of state, wealth and power he had taken for granted.
Press
Press (2018) - TV Mini-Series
Set in the fast-paced and challenging environment of the British newspaper industry, Press will immerse viewers in the personal lives and the constant professional dilemmas facing its characters. The series follows their lives as they attempt to balance work and play, ambition and integrity, amid the never-ending pressure of the 24-hour global news cycle and an industry in turmoil.
Canned
Canned (2017) - Short Film
A dark comedy. Three school friends each suffering from a 'quarter-life-crisis' are thrown back together again following a tragedy. Can their friendship re-blossom and in doing so help each of them figure out this life business?
I May Destroy You
The question of sexual consent in contemporary life and how, in the new landscape of dating and relationships, we make the distinction between liberation and exploitation. (imdb)
Femme
Femme (2021) - Short Film
When Jordan gets into the car of a flirtatious drug-dealer, his night takes a dangerous turn. (imdb)
Men
A young woman goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside after the death of her ex-husband. (imdb)
The Lazarus Project
Is a top secret organization dedicated to preventing mass extinction events and with the ability to make time go backwards (imdb)
Black Mirror
Genie
The film is a fairy-tale comedy about a workaholic man who enlists the help of a magical genie to help win his family back before Christmas. (imdb)
The Outrun
Rona, fresh out of rehab, returns to the Orkney Islands; a place both wild and beautiful right off the Scottish coast. After more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona – now 30 – attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn (2021) - TV Mini-Series
The final months of Boleyn's life, her struggle with Tudor England's patriarchal society, her desire to secure a future for her daughter, Elizabeth, and the brutal reality of her failure to provide Henry with a male heir. (imdb)