- Born
- Height6′ 3¾″ (1.92 m)
- Blackthorne's first film role was as Captain Andrew Russell in the Oscar-nominated Bollywood film Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001). He spent six months learning Hindi for the role. He also starred in Mindcrime (2003) and the festival-winning indie feature length film Four Corners of Suburbia (2005), winner of both the Crossroads Film Festival in Best Narrative Feature (2006) and in the category of Best Composer at the Avignon Film Festival, Avignon, France (2006). Additional indie film credits include This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis (1999), and a starring role in the British film The Truth Game (2001). Blackthorne appeared as Jonas Exiler in Special (2006), with Michael Rapaport. Blackthorne's directorial debut This American Journey (2013) was released in 2013. The road trip documentary film follows Blackthorne and Australian photographer Mister Basquali as they travel across America interviewing everyday Americans about how they feel about their country and their hopes for its future. The film was featured at the Hollywood, Carmel, Ojai and Big Bear Film Festivals. It was released through Cinema Libre Studios.- IMDb mini biography by: scaryofmonsters
- SpouseMissy Rayder(August 2021 - ?)
- His fluent american accent
- Deep gravelly voice
- Towering height
- He spent six months learning Hindi for his role in Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001).
- Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001), the film in which he made his film debut, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
- He has played the same character (Quentin Lance) in three different series: Arrow (2012), The Flash (2014) and DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016).
- In the final episode of the third series of 24 (2001): Day 3: 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m., a profile of his character, Stephen Saunders, is seen on a computer screen. It describes him as being only 5' 10", despite the fact that he is notably taller.
- Paul Blackthorne stars in the NBC television show, "The InBetween," in which he uses his native British accent. His American accent in previous TV shows is so fluent that hearing him speak with a British accent can be a bit startling until the viewer gets used to it.
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