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“A woman, who shall remain nameless, said to me, 'You're going to love LA, Paul, because over here ambition is not a dirty word.' And I thought, 'Well, you've named one of the things that I feel quite patriotic about.' It's still a little bit embarrassing in Britain if you're seen to try.” Paul Bettany.

British actor Paul Bettany is widely known for playing Charles Herman, the roommate and best friend of the schizophrenic, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash Jr. in Ron Howard’s Oscar-winning biopic A Beatiful Mind (2001). He later gained more recognition for portraying writer Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight's Tale (2001) and playing an Opus Dei monk called Silas in the controversial The Da Vinci Code (20 ..[Full version]