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- Birth namePaul Franklin Watson
- Paul Watson was born on December 2, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for The Seacrets, Paul Whitehouse: Our Troubled Rivers (2023) and END:CIV (2011). He has been married to Yana Rusinovich since February 14, 2015. They have two children. He was previously married to Allison Lance, Lisa Ann DiStefano and Starlet Melody Lum.
- SpousesYana Rusinovich(February 14, 2015 - present) (2 children)Allison Lance(2006 - ?) (divorced)Lisa Ann DiStefano(1998 - ?) (divorced)Starlet Melody Lum(1977 - ?) (divorced, 1 child)
- He is one of the founding members of the Greenpeace Foundation.
- The movie Ocean Warrior (1981) is partly based on his experiences.
- Met his wife Yana (born Yana Rusinovich) on November 2013. On February 14th 2015 they wed in Paris.
- In 1977, he founded Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, where he served until 2022.
- We're not even the captains of the spaceship. We're just the passengers, watching and consuming. The crew is the insects and the microbes and the other creatures, doing what they do to keep the ship functioning. And right now we're killing off the essential crew, one by one.
- I'm not pessimistic about anything. You just have to have enough passion and perseverance. I alway point to 1972. The very idea that Nelson Mandela would be president of South Africa was unthinkable, unimaginable and impossible, yet it happened. So I'm eternally optimistic.
- You know, I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me. You can't change things by not pissing people off.
- I would just say is that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.
- (on the role of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) We do not protest. Protesting is fundamentally submissive. We are enforcers. We sail to enforce the law.
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