Paul Wesley - Biography and Info
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Date of Birth
23 July 1982, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Birth Name
Pawel Thomas Wasilewski
Height
5’ 10” (1.78 m)
Mini Biography
Pawel Thomas Wasilewski, known professionally as Paul Wesley, is an American actor, best known for his roles as Stefan Salvatore in The CW TV series The Vampire Diaries and as Aaron Corbett in the ABC Family miniseries Fallen.
Paul attended the Christian Brothers Academy as well as Marlboro High School. He was expelled from the first school for getting into fights. It was his troubled youth that led him towards acting. He was forced by a teacher to do a school play, when he was in the third grade, but found acting a safe haven. Whilst in his junior year at Marlboro, he landed the role of Max in “The Guiding Light” (1952). Due to his acting schedule, he transferred schools to Lakewood Prep school. He graduated in 2000. He went on to Rutgers University but, because he was being offered roles, he decided to quit after one semester.
His breakthrough role came in ” The Vampire Diaries ” (2009). He auditioned for both the roles of Damon, the bad vampire brother, and Stefan, the good vampire brother. But they decided he would work better as Stefan.
He currently resides in Los Angeles and Atlanta, where he continues filming on ‘The Vampire Diaries’.
Trivia
Says if he wasn’t an actor/director he would want to be an investigative journalist.
His first kiss was when he was nine years old and in a swimming pool with a girl that dared him into kissing her.
He began to credit himself as Paul Wesley in 2005 because he thought his birth-name was too hard to pronounce. He asked his family’s permission before changing it.
He speaks fluent Polish.
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Paul Wesley Family
Paul was raised in the Marlboro, New Jersey. His parents are Polish and many of his relatives live in Poland. Until the age of 16, he spent 4 months of every year in Poland.
Agnieshka Wasilewski - Mother
Thomas Wasilewski - Father
Monika Emara - Older Sister
Julia Wasilewski - Younger Sister
Leah Wasilewski - Younger Sister
Spouse
Married his long time girlfriend Torrey DeVitto in a secret ceremony in New York (16 April 2011 - present).
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Paul talks about how he got his start as a young actor:
When I was a kid, I was really interested in acting, and I started doing some theater in school plays. I was living 45 minutes outside of Manhattan, and I wanted to segue into doing something on a professional level. When I was 15, I decided to join this workshop, run by Flo Greenberg, in Manhattan. I would commute to the city from Jersey every day.
I went for years. It was like boot camp. I just didn’t know what the hell I was doing. I just had all these emotions. I came from an immigrant family. English was my secondary language growing up, and in my household it was always Polish. I always felt like a pretty observant individual, and I had all these ideas of how to mimic things. I just had a general level of emotion, but I didn’t really know how to channel it. It was just a matter of having words on a page and applying those feelings. A lot of it came incredibly innately for me, which was fantastic. At the end of the class, we put up a showcase. That showcase attracted talent agents, and I got fortunate that one of the agents signed me.
In all sincerity, my greatest training at an early age was the first job that I got, on “Guiding Light.” I was pretty awful, and I developed some technique just by being around actors who had been doing it for 20 years. As I became older, I really wanted to take it to another level. I read all the Stanislavsky books. I read all the Meisner books. I did all this before I chose any kind of acting coach. I started auditing all these classes, and there were all these famous coaches that I didn’t connect with.
And then I found a guy named Stuart Rogers in the [San Fernando] Valley, who was sort of under the radar. I found that his work was really non-techniquey and more about spontaneity and being in the moment. It sounds so simple, but it’s really not. He’s a really solid, practical coach. He doesn’t make things heady. I have also used well-known teachers like Ivana Chubbuck for certain things. I believe in an assortment of techniques. I think marrying one specific technique is a flaw. You should always be open to change and willing to accept whatever advice people are willing to give you and be able to filter it.
Everyone has an opinion and everyone has an interpretation of how they would do a scene, and it really doesn’t matter. At the end of the day it’s all art, and if you’re honest in the moment and you make a commitment, stick to it and don’t second-guess yourself.
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