Biography
Paul Anderson is an English actor born on 12 February 1978 in London. He trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and began his career in the mid-2000s after working as a ticket scalper.
He first gained attention for his leading role in the 2009 film The Firm and appeared as Colonel Sebastian Moran in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). Anderson is best known for portraying Arthur Shelby in the BBC series Peaky Blinders (2013–2022). His other film credits include The Revenant (2015) as Anderson, Legend (2015), In the Heart of the Sea (2015), Brimstone (2016), Hostiles (2017), Robin Hood (2018), Nightmare Alley (2021) and Lift (2024).
