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name: "Paul Popplewell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-popplewell"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T13:22:24.711573+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Paul Popplewell

Actor. Born 1 January 1977 in England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1977, England, UK

## Biography

Paul Popplewell is a British actor. He began his professional career at the age of 16, playing the lead role of Simon in the BBC drama *Criminal* (1994), for which he won Best Actor at the Golden Chest Film Festival and received a Royal Television Society Award nomination.

Popplewell played Paul Ryder in *24 Hour Party People* (2002) and Bod in *Tyrannosaur* (2011). His other credits include roles in *Black Mirror* (2011), *'71* (2014), *Peterloo* (2018) and as Paul Pegg in the BBC series *Casualty* (2021–2023). He has also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Tyrannosaur* (2011), Fi1m 81, as Bod — [page](https://film.one/film/tyrannosaur.md)

## Also known for

- *Black Mirror* (2011), Dustin — [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md)
- *'71* (2014), Training Corporal
- *24 Hour Party People* (2002), Paul
- *The Trip* (2011), Paul
- *Scoop* (2024), Editor
- *A Young Doctor's Notebook* (2012), Yuri
- *Morvern Callar* (2002), Guy with Hat — [page](https://film.one/film/morvern-callar.md)
- *Peterloo* (2018), Mill Overseer

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