1. Paul Kaye was born on 15 December 1964 and is an English comedian and actor.
35 Facts About Paul Kaye
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Paul Kaye is perhaps best known for his role as Thoros of Myr in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.
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Paul Kaye started as shock interviewer Dennis Pennis on The Sunday Show.
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Paul Kaye was born in the Clapham area of London on 15 December 1964.
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Paul Kaye was a promising schoolboy athlete who achieved an impressive time in the 100-metre race.
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On graduation, Paul Kaye designed theatre posters for the King's Head, the Bush Theatre, and the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill.
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Paul Kaye was a scene painter at the Old Vic Theatre in Waterloo and illustrated regularly for the NME, i-D, Literary Review, Time Out and International Musician magazines between 1987 and 1989.
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Paul Kaye had two exhibitions of illustration and poster work between 1989 and 1990, firstly at the Soho House Theatre, and then at The Drill Hall.
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Paul Kaye was signed to Go Discs in 1992 with a group called TV Eye, which released two singles, "Killer Fly" and "Eradicator".
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In 1993, Paul Kaye filmed a prototype Dennis Pennis, interviewing his own band on a late-night indie music show on Granada TV called Transmission.
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Paul Kaye turned them down, preferring to stay on Jobseeker's Allowance and stick with We Are Pleb; Mark Lamarr eventually took the job.
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Paul Kaye became in-house theatre designer of the Bet Zvi Drama Academy in Tel Aviv for 12 months in 1994, designing all the in-house productions in their studio theatre.
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In 1994, Paul Kaye convinced his old friend Anthony Hines to help him write Dennis Pennis when he was offered the job on The Sunday Show.
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In 1998, Paul Kaye appeared in the video to the Fat Les song "Vindaloo" as a Richard Ashcroft look-alike.
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Paul Kaye appeared as the singer of a fictional punk band called Spunk in a 1999 mock-documentary of the same name, which appeared as the 'wrath' part of a Channel 4 series on the seven deadly sins.
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In 2000, Paul Kaye starred in the comedy series Perfect World, a sitcom about a down-on-his-luck marketing manager.
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Paul Kaye briefly presented a BBC2 quiz show, Liar, in which six contestants would all have a supposed claim to fame and the studio audience voted on which one they believed was telling the truth.
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In 2004, Paul Kaye played the leading role in the film Blackball.
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Paul Kaye played in two episodes of the BBC drama series Waking the Dead, playing Dr David Carney in "Shadowplay".
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Paul Kaye appeared in Hotel Babylon, Pulling, and as Uncle Gorwel in A Child's Christmases in Wales by Mark Watson.
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From November 2010 to January 2011, Paul Kaye played Matilda's father Mr Wormwood in the Royal Shakespeare Company's musical Matilda, based on the classic Roald Dahl novel of the same name.
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Paul Kaye reprised the role when the musical transferred to the Cambridge Theatre in London's West End in October 2011.
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In 2013, Paul Kaye appeared as Thoros of Myr in the third season of the HBO series Game of Thrones, and as Danno in the BBC Radio 4 series Love in Recovery.
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In 2014, Paul Kaye played Brother Lucian in the movie Dracula Untold.
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Paul Kaye appeared in Doctor Who as an alien funeral director.
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In 2017, Paul Kaye appeared onstage as Chilean bomb maker Jose Miguel in B, a new play by Guillermo Calderon at the Royal Court Theatre.
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Paul Kaye appears as Dr Malcolm Donahue, the pathologist in ITV's Vera until 2023.
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Paul Kaye has appeared as Danno, who is a recovering alcoholic attending Alcoholic Anonymous meetings in Pete Jackson's BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series Love in Recovery.
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In 2019, Paul Kaye debuted as hospital chaplain Daniel Booth in the ITV dramedy Cold Feet, and played a psychiatrist in the Netflix comedy series After Life.
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In 2023, Paul Kaye starred in The Pillowman, staged at the Duke of York's Theatre, London.
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In 1983, Paul Kaye took a year out of university and lived on Israel's Gvar'am kibbutz, where he met an Israeli woman, Orly Katz.
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In January 2009, Paul Kaye wrote an article for The Guardian in which he called for peace between Israel and the Palestinians after his mother-in-law was killed by a Hamas rocket strike on the Gvar'am kibbutz.
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In March 2019, Paul Kaye gave a reading at the funeral of The Prodigy frontman Keith Flint.
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Paul Kaye has been nominated for a number of film awards:.
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Paul Kaye has been nominated for two major theatre awards:.