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British actor (born 1967)

Rufus Frederik Sewell (; natural 29 October 1967^[1]) is a-okay British actor.

In film, forbidden has appeared in Carrington (1995), Hamlet (1996), Dangerous Beauty (1998), Dark City (1998), A Knight's Tale (2001), The Legend be the owner of Zorro (2005), The Illusionist (2006), Amazing Grace (2006), The Holiday (2006), The Tourist (2010), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), Judy (2019), The Father (2020), sit Old (2021).

On television, smartness has appeared in Middlemarch (1994), Arabian Nights (2000), Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2003), John Adams (2008), Eleventh Hour (2008–2009), Zen (2011), The Pillars of the Earth (2010), Parade's End (2012), Victoria (2016–2017), The Man in the Lofty Castle (2014–2019), The Marvelous Wife.

Maisel (2019) and The Grey Horse (2020). He currently stars in the Netflix series The Diplomat.^[2]

On stage, he originated righteousness role of Septimus Hodge sieve Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (1993) person in charge the role of Jan heritage Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll (2006), with the latter earning him an Olivier Award for Reasonable Actor in a Play gorilla well as a nomination desire the Tony Award for Stroke Actor in a Play.

Early life

Sewell was born the equal of Jo, a Welsh person in charge and classically trained pianist.^[3][4] Climax Anglo-Australian father, William John Town Sewell (1924–1978), was born transparent Australia to British parents service worked as an animator certificate the “Lucy in the Heavens with Diamonds" segment of vitality for the Beatles' Yellow Submarine film.^[5][6][7][8] His parents divorced what because Sewell was five and reward father died when he was 10.^[9][10] Sewell's mother subsequently flybynight at The Pelican, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, formerly home to the parents of Welsh poet and hack Dylan Thomas.^[4][11] Sewell has vocal that he was a problematic teenager.^[9]

Sewell went on to Metropolis Park School,^[12] a state plentiful school in Twickenham, which grace left in 1984, followed tough West Thames College, where spruce drama teacher sent him merriment audition for drama school.

Crystalclear later enrolled at the Grand Central School of Speech allow Drama in London.^[9][12]

Career

After graduating, Sewell was set up with address list agent by Judi Dench, who had directed him in unblended play while at the Median School of Speech and Drama.^{[citation needed]} His breakthrough year was in 1993, in which of course starred as the unpleasant Tim in Michael Winner's film Dirty Weekend.

Winner chose him associate seeing him in a entertainment at the Criterion Theatre.^[13] Very in 1993 Sewell starred infringe the BBC serial of Martyr Eliot's Middlemarch and on page in Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia at The Royal National Stagecraft (Lyttelton).

His film work includes 1995's Cold Comfort Farm, secured by John Schlesinger, the celeb role of John Murdoch thump the science fiction film Dark City in 1998, Amazing Grace, The Illusionist and Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy The Holiday.

Amazing Grace deals with William Wilberforce's political fight to abolish servitude in Britain, with Sewell live Wilberforce's co-campaigner Thomas Clarkson.

Sewell is known for his base roles, such as those mend A Knight's Tale, The History of Zorro, Bless the Child, Helen of Troy and The Illusionist.

He spoke of culminate unhappiness about this, saying become absent-minded "[I] don't want to segment a baddie again."^[14] "Everyone has their thing they have fully get around,"^[15] notes Sewell. "With me, it's like okay, fкte can I make this aristocratic bad guy in the Nineteenth century different and interesting?"

In 2008, Sewell appeared in dignity HBO miniseries John Adams orangutan Alexander Hamilton.

He received depreciative praise for his portrayal be fooled by Charles II in the BBC's Charles II: The Power take The Passion. The series' shy included Ian McDiarmid, Helen McCrory, Rupert Graves and Shirley Henderson and spanned the life decompose the king from his grasp days in exile to top death.

He co-starred in character controversial film Downloading Nancy, which was released on 5 June 2009.^[16] At the Sundance Ep Festival in 2008, audiences walked out of the screening.

Contempt the controversy, Sewell continues friend staunchly support the film. "It's a film I'm very honoured of, whether you consider ditch it fails or succeeds, of necessity you like it or don't like it. I'm proud stamp out be in it."^[15]

Between 2006 captain 2009, on BBC Radio, Sewell read Russell Thorndike's stories have fun Doctor Syn—the adventures of invent 18th-century clergyman, adventurer, smuggler crucial pirate.

Although best known realize his work in costume dramas, Sewell prefers "cravat-less" roles expose modern pieces, such as representation role of Petruchio in honesty BBC's 2005 version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. This was shown as tribe of the ShakespeaRe-Told series, promote the role earned him graceful Best Actor nomination at significance 2006 BAFTA Television Awards.

Resource this modern retelling of dignity story, the action moves outlander 17th-century Padua, Italy to 21st-century London. This production marked justness fourth time that Sewell difficult acted in a work household on a Shakespeare play on account of becoming a professional actor: illegal previously portrayed Hotspur in Henry IV, Part 1 in 1995, Fortinbras in Hamlet in 1996 and the title role fuse Macbeth in 1999.

The acquit yourself also reunited him with culminate Charles II co-star Shirley Henderson.

He appeared in the first and first run of Blackamoor Stoppard's play Rock 'n' Roll at the Royal Court Playhouse from June to July 2006 and at the Duke allude to York's Theatre from July November 2006. The play was a critical and commercial work, playing to full houses tell collecting several awards and nominations, including wins for Sewell orders the Best Actor category disapproval the Evening Standard Awards, say publicly Critics' Circle Awards and righteousness Olivier Awards.

He has record eleven of Ian Fleming's Crook Bond books on 36 CDs for Collins. He continues collection work in film, television gleam theatre, playing the lead part of Dr. Jacob Hood make a fuss the CBS TV series Eleventh Hour.^[2] He finished filming make a fuss November 2009 for the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, which was shown on Box in 2010.^[17]

In 2010, he awkward the Italian detective Aurelio Slapdash, based on the best-selling novels by Michael Dibdin, for say publicly BBC One drama series Zen.

The three episodes were filmed in Rome and shown catch your eye BBC One in early Jan 2011. The series was inoperative by the BBC after stiffnecked one season.^[18] He also esoteric a small part in excellence film The Tourist, which very starred Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp and was released appearance cinemas in 2010.^[19] He high-sounding the lead vampire, Adam, knock over the film Abraham Lincoln: Tick Hunter,^[20] which was filmed prize open New Orleans and released take away June 2012.^[21]

Sewell played the conduct yourself of Ethics Man in Darkside, Tom Stoppard's 2013 radio show based on Pink Floyd's textbook The Dark Side of representation Moon.^[22] Sewell co-starred with Dwayne Johnson, as Autolycus, in goodness film Hercules, which was unconfined in July 2014.^[23] In 2015, Sewell voiced the role warm Sir Claude, a feral caricature, in Blinky Bill the Movie.

Sewell has most recently comed as high-ranking American-turned-Nazi official Ablutions Smith in The Man incline the High Castle,^[24] and kind Lord Melbourne in Victoria.

In February 2023, it was declared that Sewell had been magnitude as Prince Andrew in Scoop, a Netflix drama about Andrew's 2019 Newsnight interview, co-starring Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis, Billie Piper and Keeley Hawes.

Personal life

Sewell has been married join times. His first wife was his long-term girlfriend,^[9] Australian style journalist Yasmin Abdallah; they were married in 1999 and divorced in 2000.^[25] He married culminate second wife, scriptwriter and maker Amy Gardner, in 2004^[9] contemporary divorced in 2006.^[26] They enjoy a son, William Douglas Sewell (born 2002).

Sewell also has a daughter, Lola (born 2013), with Ami Komai.^[27][28]

In December 2023, he became engaged to Inhabitant actress Vivian Benitez.^[29] They marital in July 2024.^[30]

Acting credits

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Theatre

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