Mathew Bose

Mathew Bose (born 3 July 1973) is a British actor. He is best known for his role as Paul Lambert in the soap opera Emmerdale from 2004 to 2010 and again in 2015.

Life and career Rajat Mathew Bose was born 3 July 1973 in South East London to Dipak and Beverley Bose.

His parents separated when he was very young, and Mathew and his mother, a nurse, lived on a council estate. Bose was shy, and the estate was "rough as a badger's a**e".

In Emmerdale, his storylines focused on Paul's love life, as well as his complicated relationship with his parents. Bose told producers of his intense dislike of Paul's one-night stand with Grayson Sinclair, as he felt this was out of character and made gay men look promiscuous. Bose left Emmerdale in 2008, but has since returned for brief stints: first in 2010 (for the wedding of Paul's sister, Nicola King), then again in March and September 2015.

Bose is Celebrity Ambassador for the UK and Ireland charity The Encephalitis Society, and is a patron of The Scratching Post, a cat rescue charity based in Hertfordshire.

In 2011, Bose toured with the Alan Ayckbourn show Season's Greetings.

Personal life Bose has been openly gay since before he began acting. His partner is television director James Ditchfield. The two began dating about six months before the film D-Day premiered. Bose spent much of the coronavirus pandemic caring for Ditchfield's children.