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Childhood and youth
Paul Wesley was born on July 23, 1982 in New Brunswick, USA, in a family of immigrants from Poland, Thomas and Agnieszka Wasilewski. At birth, the future actor was named Pavel Tomash. He spent the early years of his biography in Marlborough with his sisters - the eldest Monica and the younger Leah and Julia. Wesley speaks excellent Polish due to the fact that until the age of 16 he lived in the homeland of his ancestors for 4 months a year.
Since childhood, the star of The Vampire Diaries has led a fairly active lifestyle. In Marlborough, Paul went to high school and a variety of electives, participated in school activities, played hockey.
Then for some time he studied at the Academy of Christian Brothers in Lyncroft. He was fond of theatrical art - after the first successfully passed acting casting, he transferred to Lakewood Prep School in Howell, as they were allowed to combine classes with work in the cinema.
After graduating from high school, Paul became a student at Rutgers University, but dropped out after a semester and concentrated on his career. In 2005, the actor changed his last name: Wasilewski turned out to be too difficult to pronounce for Americans, and after asking permission from his relatives in advance, the young man began to be called Wesley, but before that he managed to star in a number of projects.
Films
At first, the guy's filmography was replenished for the most part with television pictures. In 1999, Paul was selected for the longest-running American series, Guiding Light. The soap opera was broadcast for 57 years, 3 of them fell to the lot of the young actor.
In the drama Mother's Day, the actor has a minor role. And Courteney Cox, Sharon Stone, Susan Sarandon, Mira Sorvino talk about problems in the relationship between mothers and daughters. In the background, Paul also appeared in the comedy melodrama "Late Flower" about a man who did not go through puberty in adolescence due to illness and, as an adult, experiences the joys of a hormonal explosion in 3 weeks instead of a couple of years.
