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Movies & TV Paapa Essiedu: the Ghanaian-British Hamlet who became Severus Snape Paapa Essiedu, a British actor of Ghanaian descent, made his name at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he played Hamlet and King Lear. After I May Destroy You and Gangs of London, HBO cast him as Severus Snape in its Harry Potter series.