Paul Kaye

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“it was great to return to the show and have this adventure. Just staying alive for six seasons is an achievement in itself on this show. My death, or my ruckus with the zombie polar bear was filmed in Belfast. I was fighting with some guy in a green suit holding a flaming wheelbarrow. It couldn’t get further from what ends up on telly.”

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Paul Kaye is a English actor and comedian born on the 15th of December 1964 in the Clapham area of London, England. He is best known for his portrayals of shock interviewer Dennis Pennis on BBC2’s The Sunday Show, New York lawyer Mike Strutter on MTV's Strutter, Thoros of Myr in the hit HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, and Vincent the Fox on the BBC comedy Mongrels. Kaye and his twin sister were adopted by Jackie and Ivan Kaye and raised in Wembley, where their adoptive parents ran a sportswear shop. He was a promising schoolboy athlete who achieved an impressive time in the 100-metre race. At the age of 16, Kaye entered Harrow Art School on a two-year foundation course, and achieved a distinction before earning a first-class degree in Theatre Design from Nottingham Trent University.

Kaye formed and sang in many bands, notably the dark psychedelic outfit We Are Pleb, who played extensively in Camden during 1988–89 and had a penchant for setting the stage on fire. Kaye was signed to Go Discs in 1992 with a group called TV Eye, which released two singles, "Killer Fly" and "Eradicator". In 1993, Kaye interviewed his own band on a late-night indie music show on Granada TV called Transmission. This tape somehow arrived on the desk of producers at Planet 24 six months later, and they offered Kaye the job of knocking on people's doors at 6.00am on The Big Breakfast. Kaye turned them down, preferring to stay on the dole and stick with We Are Pleb; Mark Lamarr eventually took the job.

Celebrity interviewer Dennis Pennis, created by Kaye, was one of his best-known characters. After brief stints presenting two episodes of Transmission as Pennis, the character next appeared in 1995 on BBC2's The Sunday Show. In 2000, Kaye starred in the comedy series Perfect World, a sitcom about a down-on-his-luck marketing manager. In 2004, Kaye played the leading role in the film Blackball. His role as deaf DJ Frankie Wilde in the 2005 mockumentary It's All Gone Pete Tong won him the Film Discovery Jury Award at the 2005 US Comedy Arts Festival. From November 2010 to January 2011, Kaye played Matilda's father Mr. Wormwood in the Royal Shakespeare Company's musical Matilda, based on the classic Roald Dahl novel of the same name. In 2013, Kaye appeared as Thoros of Myr in the third season of the HBO series Game of Thrones, and as Danno in the BBC Radio 4 series Love in Recovery. In 2016, he reprised his role as Thoros in the sixth season and seventh season of Game of Thrones. Kaye's other television credits include Steve Pemberton's anthology series Inside No. 9 (2015), the BAFTA winning Murder in Successville (2016), the BBC miniseries Three Girls (2017), the Sky comedy Zapped (2016-2018) and Amazon Prime’s adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens (2019). From 2020 to 2021, Kaye joined the cast of the Netflix thriller The Stranger, as well as the BBC America fantasy series The Watch, opposite his Thrones co-star Richard Dormer.