Wesley Paul, a Hollywood actor, was born July 23, 1982 in New Jersey. He is the second child in the family of Polish emigrants Wassilewski. In addition to Paul, his parents Thomas and Agnieszka raise three more girls - Monica (she is two years older than her brother), Julia and Leah. Paul Wesley, whose photo is presented in the article, does not forget about his roots. He knows Polish very well, and until he was 16 years old, he spent four months a year in his parents' homeland.
Wesley Paul became interested in filming while still in high school. In 1999, a video with the participation of a young man was released. The blue-eyed blonde with a bright beautiful appearance opposed smoking of teenagers. After casting, he gets a role in the television series "Guiding Light". Due to the busy schedule of filming, Paul is transferred to the Lakewood school, which is more loyal to the participation of students in filming.
After graduating from school in 2000, Wesley Paul enters Rutgers University, the largest university in New Jersey. However, having decided that education will not be useful for the development of his acting career, the young man leaves his studies after the first semester. In the same year, the talent of the aspiring artist was noted by film critics, and he was nominated for the award as the best young actor of daytime TV shows for his participation in the series “Guiding Light”.
In 2002, he was entrusted with a small cameo role in the famous blockbuster of Stephen Spielberg with Tom Cruise in the main role of "Minority Report". However, the name of Paul in the credits does not appear. This was followed by shooting in various television series. Wesley Paul has played in such series as Lonely Hearts, Smallville, 8 Simple Rules for My Teenage Daughter, CSI: Crime Scene, Law and Order, 24 Hours, Army wives" . Some of them were very successful on Russian screens.
In 2009
, films with Paul Wesley replenished with another, which has become truly stellar for the actor. He begins to appear in the television series "The Vampire Diaries", which tells the story of the life of two vampire brothers and their lover. Thanks to his participation in this film, Paul receives a number of awards. In 2010, he became the winner in the nomination "Breakthrough of the Year" and "Best Actor in a Fantastic Series." In 2011, he was again nominated for the prize, but his screen brother, actor Ian Somerhalder, won.
In 2012, Paul co-produced the film "Now or Never," which was also noted by American film academics and was nominated for an Academy Award in the category "Best Short Film". In addition, this film has won a number of outstanding awards around the world. According to Paul himself, at the moment, work is underway to shoot a full-length film, in which the actor is also involved.
The charming appearance of the actor, his charisma does not go unnoticed, which, apparently, most often determines the roles that he plays. Basically, these are creatures "not from this world." So, in Vampire Diaries, Paul plays a vampire, in Fallen he got the role of a fallen angel, and in the television series Wolf Lake, he was a werewolf.
In addition to filming in various television and film projects, Paul is interested in hockey and snowboarding.