Paul Mescal

The Irish actor has earned a host of nominations this awards season for his performance in Charlotte Wells' acclaimed drama.

He will also join Fleabag star Andrew Scott and The Crown’s Claire Foy in British fantasy drama Strangers. In the play, Mescal stars as Stanley Kowalski, a role famously played by screen icon Marlon Brando. But it was the following year that would see Mescal star in the film that has defined his career so far. The film itself also picked up swathes of nominations and was voted British film magazine Sight and Sound’s best film of 2022. Over the next few years, he landed stage roles in his native Ireland in productions including The Red Shoes and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mescal then made his feature debut in 2021, alongside Oscar winner Olivia Colman in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s psychological drama The Lost Daughter. Mescal’s performance in the 12-episode series earned him universal acclaim. The 26-year-old, from Maynooth, County Kildare, had enjoyed a relatively sharp trajectory over the past few years, having only made his feature debut in 2021. Joining these filmmaking veterans in the Oscar discourse is young Irish actor Paul Mescal. [Phoebe Bridgers](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/review-photos-phoebe-bridgers-stuns-24573924) since 2020, and appeared in the music video for her song Savior Complex, directed by Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The year 2022 was a busy one for the young actor, having also starred as a man accused of sexual assault in the psychological drama God’s Creatures, and the male lead in a film adaptation of the opera Carmen. [Steven Spielberg](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/all-about/steven-spielberg), Colin Farrell and Jamie Lee Curtis are going up against a host of exciting new writers, directors, and actors in a bid for the prestigious trophy.

Paul Mescal's younger sister said she felt 'sick with pride' as she shared a photo of the moment her brother discovered he was an Academy Award nominee.

Paul's latest bout of good news comes after he was also nominated for a BAFTA for the same role. Tweets: She then shared a series of tweets as the news sunk in with the first reading: 'I'M SOBBING', and then 'how on earth did this happen' She then shared a series of tweets as the news sunk in with the first reading: 'I'M SOBBING', and then 'how on earth did this happen.'

Following his role in 'Aftersun', Paul Mescal has been nominated for 'Best Actor' by the Academy Awards ahead of the 95th Oscars, it's his first nomination.

Austin Butler is nominated for his portrayal of Elvis Presley in the biopic Elvis, while Brendan Fraser has received a nod for a transformative performance in The Whale. A drama which yearns with melancholy, Wells makes us nostalgic for lives we’ve never lived in her story, which follows a young woman who reflects on the shared joy of a holiday she took with her father 20 years earlier.” Mescal was hotly-tipped for a nomination, and the news was confirmed this afternoon at Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, California, by Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams.

The 26-year-old Irish actor shared an adorable FaceTime call with members of his family following the announcement on Tuesday. Spotted in the corner of a ...

Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose All Quiet on the Western Front - Volker Bertelmann All Quiet on the Western Front - Germany All Quiet on the Western Front The Banshees of Inisherin This is bananas, thank you!’

CRITICALLY acclaimed Irish film The Banshees of Inisherin has received nine Oscar nominations tod...

Nielsen), Music -Original Score (Carter Burwell), Best Picture and Writing (Original Screenplay). Elsewhere Irish language film The Quiet Girl was nominated in the International Feature Film Category, where it goes up against the likes of World War One film All Quiet on the Western Front, and Irish actor Paul Mescal, of Normal People fame, was nominated for Actor in a Leading Role for his part in the movie Aftersun. The film has been nominated for the following Oscars: Actor in a Leading Role (Farrell), Actor in a Supporting Role (Gleeson), Actor in a Supporting Role (Keoghan), Actress in a Supporting Role (Condon), Directing (McDonagh), Film Editing (Mikkel E.G.

It's official – Paul Mescal is an Academy Award nominee! After much discussion over the past few weeks, the Irish-born actor, who many of us fell head over ...

“This is truly a special moment for everyone involved in Aftersun. This is bananas, thank you!” His sister also took to Instagram, where she showed a throwback of her and her two brothers jumping on a trampoline:

Paul Mescal. The star received a nomination for his performance in Aftersun (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo). Life before the limelight. Paul received an acting ...

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The film named one of the best films of 2022 by the National Board of Review.

The youngster is on vacation with her father, Callum, played by Paul Mescal, at a Turkish resort on the eve of his 31st birthday. Another added: "Now Paul Mescal is nominated for an Oscar as he should be." Paul Mescal has been nominated for Best Actor for playing a Scots dad in the film Aftersun.

Oscar Nominee Paul Mescal Transfers Acclaimed A Streetcar Named Desire Into The West End.

The success of A Streetcar Named Desire is a creative triumph for Rebecca Frecknall, its director. “I don’t want to make movies liked Aftersun for the rest of my life. His rugged good looks wrapped in a rugby player’s physique are combined with a quicksilver ability to inhabit any kind of part. When news broke of Mescal’s nomination, the Almeida’s box office manager reported a tsunami of calls and emails such was the demand for tickets. The Phoenix holds 1,012 seats. [Paul Mescal](https://deadline.com/tag/paul-mescal/)’s Irish eyes are smiling, and doing a jig as well.

Paul Mescal, seen here in London in 2022, received his first Academy Award nomination for his role in "Aftersun." David M. Benett/Getty Images.

After starring in a number of theater plays in the UK, Mescal hit the lottery with his first mainstream role in “Normal People,” putting him on the fast track to international stardom. Everyone from Gen Z to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voting body – and those in between – have taken notice. He began his acting training at The Lir Academy in Dublin. He also earned a Critics Choice Award nomination and won a BAFTA TV Award. “Aftersun” marked Mescal’s first major film role. [“Normal People,”](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/07/opinions/watching-normal-people-in-abnormal-times-spivey-caddell/index.html) in which he starred alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones, that put Mescal on the map.

It comes after Mescal was nominated for his first-ever Academy Award for best actor, for his role in the film Aftersun.

“It’s been moving to see how audiences have responded to our work and I’m excited to see how the piece will evolve in the West End.” Frecknall added: “I’m thrilled we will have the opportunity to share this production with a wider audience. “It’s my favourite play and it’s wonderful to be able to share it with a wider audience”.

Normal People's Paul Mescal has responded to being nominated for his first-ever Oscar, after he received the nod for his role in Aftersun.

It was kind of moving against the trope that we normally see with single dads." "It's refreshing to see separated parents when neither is an antagonist. "I remember reading the script and seeing that Calum and Sophie’s mum had a natural rapport, that there's genuine care between them and I think that it is a positive position to put your child. To be recognised by the Academy is such an insane honour and I'm so utterly grateful. This is bananas, thank you!" [Normal People](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a32298343/normal-people-season-2-release-date/)'s Paul Mescal has responded to [being nominated](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/oscars/a42621296/oscar-2023-nominations-academy-awards-full-list/) for his first-ever [Oscar](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/oscars/), after he received the nod for his role in [Aftersun](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a42001955/aftersun-review-how-to-watch/).

Paul Mescal's post-'Normal People' return to the stage was always going to be a big deal: the entire run of Rebecca Frecknall's Almeida Theatre revival of ...

Another run in the future is possible, but really it’s safest to view this as your last, best chance to see Mescal’s borderline satanic Stanley, Ferran’s achingly fragile Stella, and Vasan’s heartbreakingly world-weary Stella. Good news! It has only become a hotter ticket since, thanks to excellent reviews and Mescal’s Academy Award nomination to his bow for his leading role in the acclaimed indie flick ‘Aftersun’.

Nominations for the 2023 Academy Awards were announced this week ahead of the awards ceremony being held in March, with this year's list particularly ...

[Martin McDonagh](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/martin-mcdonagh) is also nominated. [Colin Farrell](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/colin-farrell) landed one of the film's nine nominations, his first Oscar nod. [here ](https://www.mirror.co.uk/newsletter-preference-centre/). [Andrea Riseborough](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/andrea-louise-riseborough), 41, got her first Academy Award nomination for her role in To Leslie, in which she plays a single mother who battles alcoholism after winning the lottery. [Bill Nighy](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/bill-nighy), 73, earned his first Best Actor nomination for his role in Living. [Paul Mescal](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/paul-mescal) is jumping for joy as Irish and British actors [dominate this year's Oscars nominations](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/breaking-oscars-2023-jamie-lee-29034045), which were announced this week.

Everyone is rightly talking about the 'Aftersun' star's Best Actor nomination, but this year's Oscars are also defined by comeback stories and first-timers, ...

And then the comeback stories: The Whale’s Brendan Fraser; Everything Everywhere’s Ke Huy Quan, a child actor from The Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Short Round!) whose career cruelly sputtered just as he hit adolescence. Inexplicable first-time nominees like Colin Farrell (Inisherin), Bill Nighy (Living), Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yeoh (both of Everything Everywhere). Aftersun and Women Talking warranted wider showings – particularly Charlotte Wells and Sarah Polley in the ultimately all-male Best Director category – while the absence of Till’s Danielle Deadwyler in Best Actress and Top Gun: Maverick’s Tom Cruise in Best Actor is perplexing. Especially in a shock nod based on a few weeks of furious campaigning by her A-list pals. How did Angela Bassett become Marvel’s first ever Oscar nominee – for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – long after everyone gave up begging the Academy to recognise the MCU? That movie, Charlotte Wells’s haunting father-daughter drama Aftersun, has now earned him a Best Actor nod – a reward for the laser-focused thoughtfulness that has gone into his trajectory so far.

Academy award nominee, Paul Mescal, is set to lead the upcoming sequel. gladiator-russell-crowe-social-featured Image via Universal Pictures.

Mescal would lead the film as Lucius Versus, the son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) and nephew of Joaquin Phoenix's Commodus. West End's Phoenix Theater contains 1,012 seats, with Adam Speers, the executive in charge of productions at the Ambassador Theatre Group, telling Deadline that the run of A Streetcar Named Desire in the theater will be incredible. Deadline notes that the Almeida’s box office manager saw a "tsunami" of demands for tickets to the show following the announcement of Mescal's nomination.

The Normal People star is in the running for Best Actor following his performance in Aftersun.

“To be recognised by the Academy is such an insane honour and I’m so utterly grateful,” he said. That evening, it was also announced that A Streetcar Named Desire was heading to London’s West End, where Paul would be remaining in the role of Stanley Kowalski, made famous on the big screen by [not being an initial frontrunner this awards season](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/oscars-2023-snubs-surprises_uk_63cff1cee4b07c0c7dff28ef), it was announced on Tuesday that Paul was [in the running for the Best Actor prize](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/oscars-2023-nominations-full-list-revealed_uk_63cebaace4b0c8e3fc78eef5) at the upcoming Academy Awards for his performance in [Aftersun](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/aftersun/). In a statement shared by Mubi after the news was announced, Paul revealed he was celebrating the “truly a special moment for everyone involved in Aftersun”. She also posted a photo of Paul reacting to the news in person, with the Bafta winner looking a little overwhelmed (but still very happy) to have landed the nomination. [Paul Mescal](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/paul-mescal/) had the best reaction to finding out he’d been nominated for his first [Oscar](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/oscars/) – and, for that matter, so did his family

Normal People star Paul Mescal is up for a Best Actor award at the 2023 Oscars – but here's why the news was bittersweet for the actor.

[The actress received a Best Supporting Actress nod](https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/20230124162396/2023-oscars-nominations-live/) for her incredible performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once alongside Angela Bassett, Kerry Condon, Hong Chau, and Stephanie Hsu. wrote one follower, and: "Nell I’m so happy I feel like a family member," added another. "That will be a tonic for your mum, to see her son shine.

Critically acclaimed and now boasting an Oscar nominee, the Almeida's Tennessee Williams production will move to the Phoenix theatre this spring.

Also reprising their roles will be Anjana Vasan (as Stanley’s wife, Stella), Patsy Ferran (as Blanche DuBois) and Dwane Walcott (as Mitch). [West End](https://www.theguardian.com/stage/westend) go on sale on 1 February. [transfers to the Noël Coward theatre](https://almeida.co.uk/whats-on/patriots-west-end/) in the West End in May. [cancelled](https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/dec/08/almeida-theatre-cancels-performances-of-a-streetcar-named-desire-as-actor-withdraws) when the injured Lydia Wilson withdrew from the role of Blanche. [A Streetcar Named Desire](https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jan/13/a-streetcar-named-desire-review-almeida-london-paul-mescal), starring Oscar nominee [Paul Mescal](https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/nov/06/masculinity-can-be-expresssed-in-many-ways-paul-mescal-interview-aftersun), is to transfer to London’s West End. [best actor](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/24/oscars-2023-nominations-everything-everywhere-all-at-once) for his performance in Aftersun, plays Stanley Kowalski in the revival of Tennessee Williams’ 1947 play set in New Orleans.