Born on 5th of March in the year 1969 in Wellington in Shropshire, England, Paul Blackthorne is an Englishman who acts in movies, TV shows and radio. His nationality is British as he is born in England and his ethnicity is white. His most prominent and also the first film role was in the 2001 Bollywood highly acclaimed and an Oscar nominated movie Lagaan where he appeared as Captain Andrew Russell. He was nominated for the Best Performance in a Negative Role at the IIFA awards for Lagaan. Later he was offered with huge number of movies and TV shows all of which went on to garner millions of fans for Paul owing to his natural acting. He spent most of his childhood days in several military bases across Britain and Germany.
He started acting on TV commercials in his native country. After Lagaan, he played on some of the world class TV series like ER as Dr. Jeremy Lawson for 5 episodes in 2004 , 10 episodes as Stephen Saunders in 24 (2004), 20 episodes in Lipstick Jungle as Shaun Healey in 2008-09, 2 episodes as Tony Kadjic in Leverage (2010) and 8 episodes in The River as Clark Quitely (2012). Some of other TV shows that he played are Jonathan Creek (1999), Medium (2005), Monk (2006), Burn Notice (2009), White Collar (2010), Necessary Roughness (2012) and more. The 2007 Dresden Files where he plays the lead role for 13 episodes is also one of his best performances in TV shows. He play as the main role Quentin Lance in the American TV show Arrow which started in 2012 and is currently on 4th season as of now.
2012 and is currently on 4th season as of now.
The list of movies in which he appeared are Romeo Thinks Again (1998), Special (2006), Justice League: Doom (2012), Dumb and Dumber To (2014), Dark Ascension (2016) and some more.
He is not married which means that he don’t have wife and children. According to sources, he has been dating the Big Bang Theory’s star Kaley Cuoco who just had divorced with Ryan Sweeting. Nothing much is known about the previous dating history of Paul. Some rumors on internet sites described him as gay but that’s not true as he is a straight guy.
The charming 46 years old Blackthorne has lived quite a successful life. His devotion and obsession in acting has fetched him with a jaw dropping net worth of $3 million. He has a extremely tall height of 6 feet and 3.5 inches and has a great physique which looks absolutely hunk type when shirtless. He has a mixed hair color of dark and brown.
He is active and regular in the social networking sites of Instagram and Twitter. He has a total of 151 thousand followers in twitter and has tweeted more than 2980 times. He is followed by 300 thousand followers in Instagram and has posted about 245 posts till date. His activeness in both of the sites proves his love for fans. You can follow him on twitter as @PaulBlackthorne and on Instagram as paulblackthorne for recent updates and information on him.