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Paul Kieve was born on 14 October, 1967 in Woodford, London, is a Paul Kieve is English illusionist. Discover Paul Kieve's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?

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Occupation Illusionist, magic effects creator
Age 56 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 14 October 1967
Birthday 14 October
Birthplace Woodford, London
Nationality United Kingdom

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1967

Paul Kieve (born 1967) is an English professional illusionist and whose consulting work for both stage and screen has contributed to changing how magical special effects in productions are approached.

He is the only illusionist ever to have won a New York Drama Desk award (for Ghost the Musical on Broadway).

1983

Kieve first performed publicly in 1983.

1984

In January 1984 at the age of 16 he performed card tricks in the music video for the Sade single Your Love Is King, his arms having been shaved to give the impression that the singer was performing the prestidigitation herself.

In April of that year he made his first television appearance on the BBC TV children's show Blue Peter, apparently cutting presenter Janet Ellis into three pieces.

1985

In 1985 he was a finalist in the "Young Magician of the Year" competition.

Early professional engagements as a performer included a 1985 residency at the Xenon nightclub on Piccadilly, London and a summer 1986 run at the Inn on The Park, Jersey where he was resident support to acts including Bernard Manning, Gloria Gaynor, Bob Monkhouse, Rolf Harris and Ken Dodd.

1986

In 1986 he and Lawrence Leyton formed The Zodiac Brothers and performed resident seasons in Sendai, Japan, on board the Cunard Line's QE2 and at the Magic Castle in Hollywood.

1991

When the Zodiac Brothers split in 1991 and Kieve made plans to attend university an approach from the Theatre Royal Stratford East to assist with illusions for a production of The Invisible Man marked the beginning of a new career as a magic consultant.

Credits include:

1996

Paul Kieve worked with French artist Orlan on Woman with Head, Woman Without Head at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1996 and with multimedia artist Christian Jankowski on the short film The Flock in which he also appeared.

with video artist Jonathan Allen He also created a ghostly dove sequence for the performance art project Carnesky's Ghost Train.

2002

He worked with performance artist Rose English on Tantamount Esperance at the Royal Court Theatre and has collaborated with Marisa Carnesky on several projects including Carnesky's Burlesque Ghost Box for Duckie in 2002.

2004

Kieve was magic consultant on the 2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for which he created a number of 'live' illusions including the floating spheres in the astronomy room and the self-folding marauders map.

He also appears in the film performing sleight of hand magic making candles multiply in his fingers in the Three Broomsticks.

He is the only real life magician to perform magic in any of the Harry Potter films.

Kieve was magic consultant to Guinness World Records for its 2004 and 2005 magic sections (the only such sections ever carried by the book), researching with other illusionists including Penn and Teller, David Copperfield and Siegfried and Roy.

A keen student of the history of magic Kieve regularly lectures both on the history of stage magic and his own work.

2009

He presented Grappling with Ghosts: Staging Ghost Effects in the Modern Theatre at the University of Westminster in 2009.

He has presented at the Essential Magic Conference - the ground-breaking online magic conference pioneered by Portuguese illusionist Luis de Matos and has lectured at the Magic Circle and the Hackney Empire in London.

Paul Kieve owns an extensive collection of historical magic memorabilia, some of which he loaned to the Hayward Gallery for its touring Magic Show (2009-2010) exhibition.

He is a consultant curator of The Magic Circle Museum

Singer-songwriter Paloma Faith once worked as Paul Kieve's magic assistant.

2011

He was magic consultant and instructor on Martin Scorsese's 2011 film Hugo, based on the magician and film maker Georges Méliès

TV credits as magic consultant include:

Kieve has also acted as magic consultant to David Blaine, Arturo Brachetti, Geoffrey Durham, Dynamo, Jeff McBride and Dominic Wood.

In 2011 he presented a talk on 'The Magic of Theatre' at the Magic Live conference in Las Vegas.

2014

He created the illusions for the 2014 Kate Bush concert Before the Dawn.

Kieve was born in Woodford, North-East London and started magic at 10 years of age after receiving a magic set as a birthday gift.