paul bettany is an english actor. he was born in harlesden in 1971 to actors thane bettany and anne kettle. he started out his acting life with a west end production of an inspector calls. bettany was offered the opportunity to take this production on tour, but he declined in favour of staying in england. bettany is married to american actress, jennifer connolly, with who he has a son, stellan, who is named after actor stellan skarsgard. his first ever tv appearance was on english detective drama, wycliffe bettany has played such characters as geoffery chaucer in a knight's tale, jarvis in iron man and iron man 2, charles darwin in creation, lord melbourne in the young victoria, silas in the da vinci code and, most recently, a gun toting angel in legion. bettany turned down a major role in silence of the lambs prequel, red dragon in order to play tom edison in lars von trier's dogville, a film which has no set other than a ... Read >

paul bettany is an english actor. he was born in harlesden in 1971 to actors thane bettany and anne kettle. he started out his acting life with a west end production of an inspector calls. bettany was offered the opportunity to take this production on tour, but he declined in favour of staying in england. bettany is married to american actress, jennifer connolly, with who he has a son, stellan, who is named after actor stellan skarsgard. his first ever tv appearance was on english detective drama, wycliffe bettany has played such characters as geoffery chaucer in a knight's tale, jarvis in iron man and iron man 2, charles darwin in creation, lord melbourne in the young victoria, silas in the da vinci code and, most recently, a gun toting angel in legion. bettany turned down a major role in silence of the lambs prequel, red dragon in order to play tom edison in lars von trier's dogville, a film which has no set other than a soundstage marked out with the positions of various people's houses and flowerbeds. Show Less <