Biography
Paul Wesley made a star "Vampire Diaries", but the actor is the fan of Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick. It is interesting for him not to work in front of the camera, but also to visit the other side, not only to implement the stories composed by someone, but also invent himself.Yes, the director and producer "a lot of headaches", starting from the budget and ending with the hard following the schedule of filming. But only they have their own vision of the development of the topic and the right of voting, only these people are made from actors of real professionals. Therefore, Wesley wants to explore the film industry from various sides.
Childhood and youth
Paul Wesley appeared on July 23, 1982 in American New Brunswick in the family of immigrants from Poland Thomas and Agnioshka Vasilevsky. At birth, the future actor received the name Pavel Tomashe. Early years of biography spent in Malboro with sisters - senior monica and younger Leah and Julia. Wesley speaks polish perfectly due to the fact that under 16 lived at the homeland of ancestors for 4 months a year.
Since childhood, the star "Vampire Diaries" led a fairly active lifestyle. In Malboro, Paul went to high school and on a variety of electives, participated in school events, played hockey.
Then some time studied at the Academy of Christian Brothers in Lincroft. He was fond of theatrical art - after the first successfully passed acting casting transferred to LakeWood Prep School in Haulle, as they allowed to combine classes with work in the cinema.
After graduating from the senior school, Paul became a student of the Rutheger University, but later, the semester threw his studies and concentrated on his career. In 2005, the actor changed the last name: Vasilevsky was too difficult in pronunciation for Americans, and, asking for pre-permission from relatives, the young man began to be called Wesley, but before this managed to play in a number of projects.
Films
At first, the guy filmography was replenished for the most part with television paintings. In 1999, Paul was selected to the longest American series "Travel Light". The soap opera was broadcast for 57 years, 3 of them fell to the share of a young actor.
In 2001, Wesley got a small role in the film "Shot in the Heart". Then there were a mystical tape about Wolf Lake, the franchises of police procedures "Law and Order" and "C.S.I.: Place of Crime." In the teenage picture of the "lonely hearts", he starred with Misha Barton and St. Gallahher, in the Drama "Lyubov Widovets", marked with 2 AMMI bonuses - with Chris Prett. Paul lit up in the famous fantastic project "Secrets of Smallville" with Tom Welling in the lead role, telling about the superman.
On the big screen Wesley made his debut in the thriller Stephen Spielberg "Operational Opinion". And it does not matter that his name is not indicated in the credits, but there were Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell partners. The film itself received 4 Saturn Prizes and advanced to Oscar. The leading roles got the floor later - in the drama about the power of the Spirit "Mirny Warrior", Fantasy Militant "Fallen", the horror movie "Winter Dead".
Real popularity came to the actor after the series "The Vampire Diaries". Paul Wesley played the main role - Vampire Stephen Salvatore, who was deprived of the rest of the girls around the world. High (an actor's height of 180 cm), the rules-haired young man with an unusual smile became a symbol of the picture.
The scene was based on a love triangle between Nina Dobrev's characters, an ordinary person, and two vampire brothers, heroes of Wesley and Ian Somaerhalder. Gradually, the story departs from one romantic line alone and reveals the secrets of other ancient creatures. For the game in this film, the actor received two TEEN Choice Awards awards in the nominations "Breakthrough of the Year: Male role in the TV series" and "Best Actor of the Fantastic Series".
In parallel with the shooting in the "diaries", the floor worked on other projects. He starred in the drama "Adventures on the Bahamas", the militant "Batown is outlawed" and the comedy "Amir and Sam". In 2016, he joined the film crew of the series "Ancient" ("original"), also on vampire themes, and performed in a kind of cameo - played Stephen Salvatore.
In the drama "Mother's Day" from actor a minor role. And the Courtney Cox, Sharon Stone, Susan Sarandon, Sorbino, are told about problems in relations between mothers and daughters. In the second plan, the floor appeared in the comedy melodrama "Late Flower" about a man who did not pass puberty in adolescence due to illness and, already being adults, he experiences the joy of hormonal explosion in 3 weeks instead of a couple of years.
The interests of Wesley are distributed not only to acting, but also on director and producing. Upon completion of the "Vampire Diaries", he found himself behind the frame of the series "Twilight Hunters" and put one series in the 2nd season.
New colleagues positively assessed the participation of sex in the filming, as he showed knowledge of the nuances of such a show and intuitively felt what to pay attention to. In an interview with Wesley admitted that I did not read the book, which was filmed by the "hunters", but I studied the Internet to get acquainted with the characters and sort out mythology.
In October 2018, the premiere of the mystical tape "Heritage", Spin-off "Diaries" took place. Paul has served the episode and in this project, in addition, he taught a new generation of vampires to drink blood properly, so that it looks spectacular and natural on the screen.
As a producer, the actor showed himself everything in the same "Vampire Diaries", Norman's Melodrame about a schoolboy, pretending to be fatally ill, criminal tape "While I will not disappear" and the short film "Isabel" for which the script also wrote.
Personal life
In the personal life of Wesley almost always accompanied girls-colleagues. 4 years old man met with Marne Patterson. In 2008, during the filming of the "Winter Dead" painting, I got acquainted with the fashion model and actress Torri Devito. In April 2011, the wedding secretly played the wedding, working side by side in the 3rd and 4th seasons "Vampire Diaries". But in July 2013, the actor divorced his wife.Embed from getty imagesAfter 2 months, Paul Wesley started a novel with Phoebe Tonkin, which lasted until 2017. Star couple looked perfect, and in 2016 news appeared on the Internet - a child was born among the actors. Later it turned out that in the photo a man holds a nephew on his hands. His own children of celebrities did not have time.
Rumors that the floor broke up with a girl after 4 years of relationship, caused the lack of joint romantic pictures in his "instagram". In early 2017, Wesley and Tonkin confirmed that no longer together, but remained friends.
In 2019, the actor married again, and again secretly. The wife of Ines de Ramon - a graduate of the University of Geneva, knows 5 languages, worked as a business administrator in a jewelry company, and now - a coach-nutritionist.
Paul Wesley Now
In 2018, the actor returned to television screens with two paintings. The first - the half-document drama "Honor Medal", represented by Netflix and Robert Zemkis, talks about the American military who passed through wars and special operations. Real fighters, their families and friends were assisted in creating the film. Together with Wesley, Oliver Hudson was filmed, Val Loren, Jonathan Stanley.
The second series "Tell me the story" - Thriller, modern reading of friends from childhood "Three Piglets", "Hansel and Gretel" and "Red Hap". Heroes Films fall in the situation similar to those described in these works, go from one storyline to another, thereby showing how in life everything is interconnected. The floor appeared in the form of a drug addict, which in search of money for the next dose is involved.
According to a number of sites, now Wesley is busy as an actor and producer in the science fiction militant "Convergence". The release date of the film in the rental was not called, but about the plot it is known that this is a mixture of the "matrix", "Komatozniki" and the "Fight Club".
Paul took off as director Episode in the mystical drama "Roswell, New Mexico" about the adventures of aliens in the human world. Michael Trevino, Wesley Colleague on the "original" and "Vampire Diaries" is involved in the caste.
Filmography
- 1999-2001 - "Guide Light"
- 2002 - "Special Opinion"
- 2003 - "Secrets of Smallville"
- 2003 - "Lonely Hearts"
- 2004 - "C.S.I.: Miami crime scene"
- 2006 - "Peace Warrior"
- 2006 - "Fallen"
- 2007 - "Shark"
- 2008 - "Winter Dead"
- 2009-2017 - "Vampire Diaries"
- 2014 - "While I will not disappear"
- 2016 - "Original"
- 2018 - "Tell me the story" ("Tell me a fairy tale")
- 2018 - "Honor Medal"