Paul Reynolds (actor)

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Paul Reynolds (born 6 February 1970){{cite web|url=https://www1.cineplex.com/People/paul-reynolds |title=Cineplex.com - Paul Reynolds |accessdate=2018-02-06}} is an English actor, his roles include portraying Colin Mathews in Press Gang (1989–1993), Kelvin Raine in Maisie Raine (1998) and convicted police murderer Chris Craig in Let Him Have It (1991).

Early life

Reynolds was born in Wanstead, London, and attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School.

Career

Reynolds' breakthrough role on television came playing Thatcherite Colin Mathews in the BAFTA award-winning ITV series Press Gang.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096679/fullcredits|title=Full cast and crew for Press Gang (1989)|publisher=IMDb.com|accessdate=2013-09-06}} His career continued with the roles of Kevin in The Ghostbusters of East Finchley,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111983/|title=Ghostbusters of East Finchley (1995– )|publisher=IMDb.com|accessdate=2013-09-06}} and Sammy Dobbs, the unscrupulous sports agent, in Andy Hamilton's Trevor's World of Sport.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361250/|title=Trevor's World of Sport (2003– )|publisher=IMDb.com|accessdate=2013-09-06}}

On the big screen, Reynolds portrayed Christopher Craig opposite Christopher Eccleston's Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/let_him_have_it/ |title=Let Him Have It |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |accessdate=2013-09-06}} and the mischievous Matt in Croupier alongside Clive Owen.{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/croupier/credits.html |title=Croupier |publisher=Movies.yahoo.com |accessdate=2013-09-06}}

In later years, Reynolds made appearances as Squeak in Absolutely Fabulous alongside Julia Sawalha, his Press Gang co-star. In 2008, he also made a cameo appearance in Lark Rise to Candleford, again with Julia Sawalha.

As well as many TV, film and radio appearances, Reynolds has appeared on stage in leading roles at The National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, The Almeida and The Bristol Old Vic portraying Baby in Mojo and Eugene in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs.

Reynolds also spent ten years in the BBC World Service radio drama Westway playing Fizza.

In 2005 Reynolds had a break from acting to set up his own production company called Remould Media which specialised in filming concerts as well as developing TV and film scripts and ideas. He currently conducts his own production work.{{Cite web |date=July 14, 2020 |title=Whatever Happened to the Cast of Press Gang |url=http://www.warpedfactor.com/2020/07/whatever-happened-to-cast-of-press-gang.html |website=Warped Factor}}

In 2007, Reynolds voiced the Fox in an advertising campaign for Fox's Glacier Mints, alongside Simon Callow who voiced Peppy the polar bear.{{Cite news |last=Swenney |first=Mark |date=14 September 2007 |title=Callow returns as Fox's polar bear |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/sep/14/advertising |work=The Guardian}}

He starred in Lucky You, a stage adaptation of Carl Hiaasen's novel of the same title which premiered at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[http://seeluckyyou.com/cast_biogs.cfm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502213723/http://seeluckyyou.com/cast_biogs.cfm|date=2 May 2009}}

Selected filmography

=Film=

Year	Title	Role	Notes
class="wikitable"
1982	The Beastmaster	Tils
1986	Castaway	Mike Kingsland
1989	Slipstream	Travis
1991	Let Him Have It	Christopher Craig
1995	Blue Juice	Recording Engineer
1998	Croupier	Matt
rowspan="2"\|2000	Stardom	Nigel Pope
The Asylum	Snape
2002	Revengers Tragedy	Junior
2011	Maltempi	Jeff	Short film
2014	The Guvnors	Big Tone
rowspan="2"\|2016	Eddie the Eagle	Clive North UK Reporter
Level Up	Taxi Driver
2017	Aux	DI Reed

=Television=

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1985

|Terry & June

|Wayne

|Episode: "New Doors For Old"

1986

|No Place Like Home

|Wayne

|Episode: "The Video"

1988

|Ten Great Writers of the Modern World

|Young Marcel Proust

|1 episode (mini series)

1989

|Great Expectations

|The Avenger

|1 episode (mini series)

1989–1993

|Press Gang

|Colin Matthews{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/e/examconditions_1299001078.shtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041213064641/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/e/examconditions_1299001078.shtml | archive-date=13 December 2004 | title=BBC - Comedy Guide - Exam Conditions }}

|43 episodes

1991

|All Good Things

|Anthony Frame

|5 episodes

1991–2010

|The Bill

|Tony Cook, Jeff Childs,

Anthony Lippi, David Cooper

|4 episodes

1992–2015

|Casualty