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Paul Nicholls (born Paul Greenhalgh on 12 April 1979) is an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 actor. His earliest role was in the BBC drama Earthfasts
Earthfasts (TV series)

Earthfasts is a BBC CBBC based upon the 1966 book of the same title by William Mayne. It was filmed on location in Richmond, North Yorkshire and Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, and was aired in 1994....
, but it was his character of Joe Wicks
Joe Wicks

Joe Wicks was a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. He was played by Paul Nicholls....
 in EastEnders
EastEnders

EastEnders is a popular and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985. It currently ranks within the top of the most watched shows in the United Kingdom....
, which he played from 1996 to 1997, that first brought him fame. Following this, he appeared in City Central as PC Terry Sydenham from 1998 to 1999.

Recent TV appearances include the 2003 BBC adaptations of The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century . The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from London Borough of Southwark to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathed...
 with Julie Walters
Julie Walters

Julie Walters, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award- and British Academy of Film and Television Arts-award winning England actor and novelist....
, as notorious art thief Adam Rice in the final episode in series 3 of Hustle
Hustle (TV series)

Hustle is a British television comedy-drama series made by Kudos for BBC One in the United Kingdom. Created by Tony Jordan and first broadcast in 2004, the series follows a group of con artists who specialise in "long cons" – extended deceptions which require greater commitment, but which return a higher reward than simple confiden...
 and the lead role in the 2004 6-part BBC miniseries A Thing Called Love.

Film appearances include World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 drama The Trench
The Trench (film)

The Trench is a 1999 in film film directed by: William Boyd that portrays a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the last 48 hours....
 (1999), Trevor Bentham's adaptation of the 1776 play The Clandestine Marriage
The Clandestine Marriage

The Clandestine Marriage is a comedy by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick, first performed in 1766 at Drury Lane. The idea came from one of William Hogarth's engravings....
 (1999), Nick Love's Goodbye Charlie Bright (2001), If Only (2004) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (film)

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is a 2004 in film romantic comedy film directed by Beeban Kidron, based on Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason....
 (2004).

His first significant stage role was as Billy Fisher in a 1998 production of Billy Liar
Billy Liar

Billy Liar is a novel by Keith Waterhouse that was later adapted into a Play , film, musical theater and TV series.The semi-comical story is about Billy Fisher, a working-class 19-year-old living with his parents in the fictional town of Stradhoughton in Yorkshire....
 at the Bush Theatre
Bush Theatre

The Bush Theatre is based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 above The Bush public house, and has since become one of the most celebrated new writing theatres in the world....
, London.






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Paul Nicholls (born Paul Greenhalgh on 12 April 1979) is an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 actor. His earliest role was in the BBC drama Earthfasts
Earthfasts (TV series)

Earthfasts is a BBC CBBC based upon the 1966 book of the same title by William Mayne. It was filmed on location in Richmond, North Yorkshire and Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, and was aired in 1994....
, but it was his character of Joe Wicks
Joe Wicks

Joe Wicks was a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. He was played by Paul Nicholls....
 in EastEnders
EastEnders

EastEnders is a popular and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985. It currently ranks within the top of the most watched shows in the United Kingdom....
, which he played from 1996 to 1997, that first brought him fame. Following this, he appeared in City Central as PC Terry Sydenham from 1998 to 1999.

Recent TV appearances include the 2003 BBC adaptations of The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century . The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from London Borough of Southwark to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathed...
 with Julie Walters
Julie Walters

Julie Walters, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award- and British Academy of Film and Television Arts-award winning England actor and novelist....
, as notorious art thief Adam Rice in the final episode in series 3 of Hustle
Hustle (TV series)

Hustle is a British television comedy-drama series made by Kudos for BBC One in the United Kingdom. Created by Tony Jordan and first broadcast in 2004, the series follows a group of con artists who specialise in "long cons" – extended deceptions which require greater commitment, but which return a higher reward than simple confiden...
 and the lead role in the 2004 6-part BBC miniseries A Thing Called Love.

Film appearances include World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 drama The Trench
The Trench (film)

The Trench is a 1999 in film film directed by: William Boyd that portrays a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the last 48 hours....
 (1999), Trevor Bentham's adaptation of the 1776 play The Clandestine Marriage
The Clandestine Marriage

The Clandestine Marriage is a comedy by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick, first performed in 1766 at Drury Lane. The idea came from one of William Hogarth's engravings....
 (1999), Nick Love's Goodbye Charlie Bright (2001), If Only (2004) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (film)

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is a 2004 in film romantic comedy film directed by Beeban Kidron, based on Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason....
 (2004).

His first significant stage role was as Billy Fisher in a 1998 production of Billy Liar
Billy Liar

Billy Liar is a novel by Keith Waterhouse that was later adapted into a Play , film, musical theater and TV series.The semi-comical story is about Billy Fisher, a working-class 19-year-old living with his parents in the fictional town of Stradhoughton in Yorkshire....
 at the Bush Theatre
Bush Theatre

The Bush Theatre is based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 above The Bush public house, and has since become one of the most celebrated new writing theatres in the world....
, London. His West End
West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English language world....
 debut was as Edmund Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of Realism , associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg....
's Long Day's Journey Into Night
Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey into Night is a 1956 drama in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play is widely considered to be his masterwork....
 at the Lyric. Subsequent London stage appearances include Vincent in Brixton at the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre, London, England, is generally known as the National Theatre and commonly as The National. It is located on the The South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge....
 and a return to the Lyric in Festen in January 2005. He was due to play a leading role in the Donmar Warehouse
Donmar Warehouse

Donmar Warehouse is a small not for profit theatre in the Covent Garden area of the London Borough of Camden, with seating for 250 playgoers....
's 2006 production of Phaedra, but had to withdraw with a severe throat infection.

In July 2007, Nicholls played the part of Terry in Channel 4's Clapham Junction
Clapham Junction (film)

Clapham Junction is a 2007 in television United Kingdom television film, written by Kevin Elyot, about the experiences of gay men during 36 hours in the Clapham area of London and the consequences when their lives collide....
. This hard-hitting drama depicted 36 hours in the life of several gay men and was shown as part of a series of programmes commemorating the 40th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexual practices in England & Wales in 1967.

Nicholls' most recent television appearance was as Rob in "Harley Street" alongside Suranne Jones. (July - August 2008)

Paul supports his local club Bolton Wanderers

Personal life

Nicholls is from Bolton
Bolton

Bolton is a large town in Greater Manchester, in the North West England region of England.Situated close to the West Pennine Moors, north west of the city of Manchester, it is the largest and most populous settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, the former county borough of Bolton has a population of 139,403, though this figure d...
, Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of List of ceremonial counties of England by population. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Metropolitan Borough of...
, attended Church Road County Primary School and Smithills Secondary School and learnt his trade at the Bolton Little Theatre. He has dated a few celebrities including his former Eastenders co-star Martine McCutcheon.

On 2 August 2008, Nicholls married his girlfriend of three years, model Chantal Brown, in an intimate ceremony near their home in Hampstead
Hampstead

Hampstead is an area of London, England, located north-west of Charing Cross. It is part of the London Borough of Camden. It is situated within Inner London....
, north London.

External links

  • at the Internet Movie Database