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Mescal is an Irish actor. He is known for his performance in the miniseries *Normal People*, in which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy nomination. Prior to his acting career, he was a Gaelic football player at the under-21 level for County Kildare and a member at Maynooth Football Club, in the defender position. His former coach Cian O'Neill described Paul Mescal as "very mature beyond his years. He was physically very strong. He was an exceptional scorer." After sustaining a jaw injury, Paul had to stop playing Gaelic football. That year, in 2017, he graduated with a BA in Arts from Trinity College University in Dublin. In 2019, he started acting with an role in a pilot episode of the television series *Bump*. Later in 2020, Paul Mescal got his first leading roles. He acts as Connell Waldron in the series *Normal People* opposite Daisy Edgar-Jones and portrays Sean McKeogh in the series *The Deceived*. The following year, 2021, Paul Mescal acts in his first full-length movie, *The Lost Daughter* by Maggie Gyllenhaal, in which he plays an Irish beach attendant in Greece. By 2023, he received a nomination in the Best Performance by an Actor category at the Oscars for his leading role in the feature film *Aftersun* by Charlotte Wells. He secured the principal role in *Gladiator 2* by Ridley Scott, and filming scheduled to start in June this year.