Paul Popplewell

Paul Popplewell is a British actor having played Simon in the BBC Two TV film drama Criminal (1994), Happy Mondays]' Paul Ryder in 24 Hour Party People (2001), Tyrannosaur, Black Mirror Fifteen Million Merits (2011), and as Paul Pegg in Casualty (2021–2023). Early life and career Popplewell landed his first role as an actor at age 16, playing lead role of Simon in the drama Criminal as part of Screen Two; The film was about a boy who with undiagnosed autism and from a council estate background in Bradford. for which he won Best Actor at the Golden Chest Film Festival and was nominated for Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Awards. At the age of 20, Popplewell was playing a leading role with the Royal Shakespeare Company in their production of Bad Weather at The Other Place (theatre) in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire., In 2001, he played Happy Mondays bassist and founder member Paul Ryder in the Michael Winterbottom film 24 Hour Party People. He later made an appearance in the music video for the Oasis single "Lyla" in 2005.