Paul Kant grew up in a cinema owning family - he may have spent more time watching films that at school. His first acting break came when he was working in Tunisia. Mireille Darc chose him to play the 'Barbare's' father in flashback in the one and only film she has directed. Paul then played the British Ambassador in Cairo in Minghella's 'The English Patient' and later a British Diplomat in Baghdad in the TV film, 'The Last Flight to Kuwait'.