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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20040912
Author:LUAINE LEE

British actor Paul Bettany thinks it was his role as the screaming Geoffrey Chaucer in "A Knight's Tale" that first captured America's attention. Bettany, 33, followed that up playing the mysterious friend in "A Beautiful Mind" and the ship's surgeon in "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."

But it's his latest role, as the aging tennis champion in "Wimbledon," -- which opens Friday -- that will probably make him a star.

Bettany's father is an actor, his mother is a singer, and he's married to Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly (whom he met on "A Beautiful Mind"), he's the ...

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