Paul Blackwell

Paul Blackwell (11 July 1954 – 24 February 2019) was an Australian stage actor and occasional film actor.[1]

For the former Welsh footballer of the same name, see Paul Blackwell (footballer). For the US Army general, see Paul E. Blackwell.

Paul Blackwell
Born(1954-07-11)11 July 1954
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died24 February 2019(2019-02-24) (aged 64)
Australia
OccupationActor

Early life

He attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art from 1980 to 1982 and appeared in many productions from some of Australia's best-known theatre companies, including Company B, Sydney Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Patch Theatre and Opera Australia.

He appeared in several films, though often in small parts. His only major film role was in the 1996 film The Quiet Room directed by Rolf De Heer—it was critically acclaimed and was screened as part of the main competition of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. In the last decades of his life, appearances included Candy, directed by Neil Armfield and starring Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush and Abbie Cornish; December Boys, starring Daniel Radcliffe; Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger; and the silent film Dr. Plonk—another collaboration with Rolf De Heer.

In 2017 Blackwell toured Australia playing Parsons in Headlong, Almeida Theatre and Nottingham Playhouse's production of Duncan MacMillan and Robert Icke's adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 for GWB Entertainment, Ambassador Theatre Group Asia Pacific and State Theatre Company of South Australia.

In 2019 Blackwell received a Premier’s Award for Lifetime Achievement posthumously in the South Australian Ruby Awards[2].

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gollark: I have fixed it using the actor model!
gollark: I'm just going to add a hard cap of 20... somethings... executing at once.
gollark: Fun fact: the new version does *not* handle it better.
gollark: I spammed it with a few thousand requests in a few seconds, and:- in the old version it just ignored two increments at once (node.js has a weird single-threaded event loop model...) (the ignoring did come with extra disk/CPU load though)- the version I took down would basically just spin for ages as all the transactions were queued- the new version should have a longer delay and work less badly

References
  1. "Acclaimed Adelaide actor Paul Blackwell dies". Adelaide Now. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  2. Cabinet, Department of the Premier and (2 December 2019). "Ruby Awards". Department of the Premier and Cabinet. Retrieved 4 December 2019.


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