Paul Anderson is an English actor who started his acting career in the late 2000s. He was previously a ticket scalper who decided to attend Webber Douglas drama school, subsequently landing roles in theatre and in films such as The Firm, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Passion. Anderson is known for his breakout role as Arthur Shelby in British television series Peaky Blinders.

Filmography

• The Gray House — Stokely Reeves
• 2024Lift — Donal
• 2024Peaky Blinders: Rambert’s The Redemption of Thomas Shelby — Arthur Shelby (voice)
• 2021Nightmare Alley — Geek #1
• 2020Tijuana Bible — Nick
• 2019Feedback — Andrew Wilde
• 2018Robin Hood — Guy of Gisbourne
• 201724 Hours to Live — Jim Morrow
• 2017Hostiles — Corporal Tommy Thomas
• 2016Brimstone — Frank
• 2015In the Heart of the Sea — Thomas Chappel
• 2015Legend — Albert Donoghue
• 2015The Revenant — Anderson
• 2014'71 — Sergeant Leslie Lewis
• 2014Electricity — Barry O'Connor
• 2013Passion — Dirk Harriman
• Peaky Blinders — Arthur Shelby
• 2013Still Life — Homeless Man
• The Great Train Robbery — Gordon Goody
• 2012Piggy — Piggy
• 2012The Sweeney — Francis Allen
• 2011A Lonely Place to Die — Chris
• 2011Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows — Colonel Sebastian Moran
• 2009The Firm — Bex
• Ashes to Ashes — PC Murder Suspect
• 2008Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me — Roger
• Lewis — Frank Sporetti, Alastair Darlow
• Midsomer Murders — Graham Spate
• 1992White Trash At Heart — David's mouth/Bar Patron
• Fortitude
• The Debt Inherited — Terry
• The Prince

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Top Gear — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self