User:Paul Innocent

Paul Innocent is an English Actor who was born on 6th July 1961 in Bromley, London. He was fostered out to a fair skinned family at 12 days of age and attended Trosnant Infant School  and Trosnant Junior School before attending Oak Park Comprehensive School in Portsmouth, Hampshire. At 9 years of age, he was in a school production of The Three Wise Men and immediately awoken people of Portsmouth to his talent. At 14 years of age, he started collecting audiences for his sports and athletic skills - Predominantly, the 100 metre sprint and subsequently became the 100 metre sprinting champion for his school and soon his athleticisms took him to win the title of 100 metre sprinting champion for Southern Hampshire. At 19 years of age whilst working as a ledger clerk, he decided to take evening classes in drama at Highbury Technical College in Portsmouth under the tuition of Betty Lavington. Within 18 months, he'd won a three year scholarship at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

After graduating from the Webber-Douglas Academy in 1985, Paul's first job came in the role of Israel Hands in Treasure Island at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Repertory Theatre. This was swiftly followed up by roles such as Aide Williams in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Nottingham Playhouse Repertory Theatre. - The role of Jim in Playboy of the West Indies at the Manchester Contact Repertory Theatre working with the likes of Treva Etienne, Louis Emerick and Sharon D. Clarke(The show was loosely based on Sean O'Casey's play Playboy of the Western World.) - Paul then headed off to London's West End to understudy Eamonn Walker in the lead role in a production of Barnaby and the Old Boys where he also got to work with the likes of Jill Gascoine and Tara Moran.

Television soon beckoned Paul to it's doors and in 1989, he was once again cast opposite his good friend Eamonn Walker in The Bill - Following this, Anji Carroll cast him in London's Burning and later, film director David Drury cast him in the gangster serial Family.