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Paul Mescal
Paul Mescal trained at The Lir Academy and worked in Dublin theatre before reaching a wider audience with Normal People in 2020.
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Career & style
Paul Mescal trained at The Lir Academy and worked in Dublin theatre before reaching a wider audience with Normal People in 2020. The television role earned a BAFTA, and his performance as a father in Aftersun brought an Academy Award nomination. He has also worked in theatre, including A Streetcar Named Desire, as well as films such as All of Us Strangers and Gladiator II.
His range makes the relationship between a moving body and an image worth examining. A small gesture in an intimate drama and the physical scale of a historical spectacle demand different kinds of presentation. Festival photographs offer another context again. Instead of using an event portrait as evidence of a fixed personality, consider the cut of the clothes, the stance and the setting as parts of a professional appearance.