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Rufus Frederik Sewell (/ˈsuːəl/; born 29 October 1967) is a British film and stage actor. In film, he has appeared in Carrington (1995), Hamlet (1996), Dangerous Beauty (1998), Dark City (1998), A Knight's Tale (2001), The Legend of Zorro (2005), The Illusionist (2006), Amazing Grace (2006), The Holiday (2006), Paris, je t'aime (2006), Judy (2019), The Father (2020), and Old (2021).

Rufus Sewell
Born	(1967-10-29) 29 October 1967 (age 55) Hammersmith, London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1991–present
Spouse(s)	Yasmin Abdallah ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2000)​ Amy Gardner ​ ​ (m. 2004; div. 2006)​
Children	2

On television, he has starred in Middlemarch (1994), 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 High Castle (2014–2019), and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2019).[1] In 2020, he also had a starring role in the Agatha Christie TV adaptation The Pale Horse.

On stage, he originated the role of Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the role of Jan in Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, with the latter earning him an Olivier Award win and a Tony Award nomination.

Early life

Rufus Frederik Sewell was born in Hammersmith, West London on 29 October 1967,[2] the son of Jo, a Welsh artist, classically trained pianist[3] and waitress, and William John Frederick Sewell (1924–1978),[4] an Anglo-Australian animator and former builder's labourer.[5][6][7] His father worked on the "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" segment of animation for The Beatles' Yellow Submarine film. His parents divorced when Sewell was five. His father died when Rufus was 10, and his mother worked in a pub and sold vegetables[8] to support her boys as a single mother, raising Rufus and his older brother Caspar.[9][10] Sewell's mother subsequently lived at The Pelican, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, formerly home to the parents of Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas.[3][11] Sewell has said that he was a difficult teenager.[12]

Sewell was educated at Trafalgar Junior School, a state junior school in Twickenham which he left in 1978. Whilst at Trafalgar Junior School he was a member of the drama club and he played the lead in Rumpelstiltskin which he acted on his knees throughout.

Sewell went on to Orleans Park School,[13] a state comprehensive school in Twickenham, which he left in 1984, followed by West Thames College, where a drama teacher sent him to audition for drama school. He later enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.[9][14]

Career

After graduating, Sewell was set up with an agent by Judi Dench, who had directed him in a play while at the Central School of Speech and Drama.^{[citation needed]} His breakthrough year was in 1993, in which he starred as the unpleasant Tim in Michael Winner's film Dirty Weekend. Winner chose him after seeing him in a play at the Criterion Theatre.[15] Also in 1993 Sewell starred in the BBC serial of George Eliot's Middlemarch and on stage in Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia at The Royal National Theatre (Lyttelton).

His film work includes 1995's Cold Comfort Farm, directed by John Schlesinger, the lead role of John Murdoch in 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 slavery in Britain, with Sewell playing Wilberforce's co-campaigner Thomas Clarkson.

Sewell is known for his villainous roles, such as those in A Knight's Tale, The Legend of Zorro, Bless the Child, Helen of Troy and The Illusionist. He spoke of his unhappiness about this, saying that "[I] don't want to play a baddie again."[16] "Everyone has their thing they have to get around,"[17] notes Sewell. "With me, it's like okay, how can I make this upper class bad guy in the 19th century different and interesting?"

In 2008, Sewell appeared in the HBO miniseries John Adams as Alexander Hamilton. He received critical praise for his portrayal of Charles II in the BBC's Charles II: The Power and The Passion. The series' cast included Ian McDiarmid, Helen McCrory, Rupert Graves and Shirley Henderson and spanned the life of the king from his last days in exile to his death.

He co-starred in the controversial film Downloading Nancy, which was released on 5 June 2009. At the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, audiences walked out of the screening, and as of summer 2008, any theatrical release was still uncertain. Despite the controversy, Sewell continues to staunchly support the film. "It's a film I'm very proud of, whether you consider that it fails or succeeds, whether you like it or don't like it. I'm proud to be in it."[17]

Between 2006 & 2009, on BBC Radio, Sewell read Russell Thorndike's stories of Doctor Syn – the adventures of an 18th-century clergyman, adventurer, smuggler and pirate. Although best known for his work in costume dramas, Sewell prefers "cravat-less" roles in modern pieces, such as the role of Petruchio in the BBC's 2005 version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. This was shown as part of the ShakespeaRe-Told series, and the role earned him a Best Actor nomination at the 2006 BAFTA Television Awards. In this modern retelling of the story, the action moves from 17th century Padua, Italy to 21st century London. This production marked the fourth time that Sewell had acted in a work based on a Shakespeare play since becoming a professional actor: he previously portrayed Hotspur in Henry IV, Part 1 in 1995, Fortinbras in Hamlet in 1996 and the title role in Macbeth in 1999. The role also reunited him with his Charles II co-star Shirley Henderson.

He appeared in the premiere and first run of Tom Stoppard's play Rock 'n' Roll at the Royal Court Theatre from June to July 2006 and at the Duke of York's Theatre from July until November 2006. The play was a critical and commercial success, playing to full houses and collecting several awards and nominations, including wins for Sewell in the Best Actor category at The Evening Standard Awards, The Critics' Circle Awards and The Olivier Awards.

He has recorded eleven of Ian Fleming's James Bond books on 36 CDs for Collins. He continues to work in film, television and theatre, playing the lead role of Dr. Jacob Hood in the CBS TV series Eleventh Hour.[1] He finished filming in November 2009 for the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, which was shown on TV in 2010.[18]

In 2010, he played the Italian detective Aurelio Zen, based on the best-selling novels by Michael Dibdin, for the BBC One drama series Zen. The three episodes were filmed in Rome and shown on BBC One in early January 2011. The series was cancelled by the BBC after just one season.[19] He also had a small part in the film The Tourist, which also starred Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp and was released in cinemas in 2010.[20] He played the lead vampire, Adam, in the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,[21] which was filmed in New Orleans and released in June 2012.[22]

Sewell played the role of Ethics Man in Darkside, Tom Stoppard's 2013 radio drama based on Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon.[23] Sewell co-starred with Dwayne Johnson, as Autolycus, in the film Hercules, which was released in July 2014.[24] In 2015, Sewell voiced the role of Sir Claude, a feral cat, in Blinky Bill the Movie. Sewell has most recently appeared as high-ranking American-turned-Nazi official John Smith in The Man in the High Castle,[25] and as Lord Melbourne in Victoria.

Personal life

Sewell has been married twice. His first wife was his long-term girlfriend,[9] Australian fashion journalist Yasmin Abdallah; they were married in 1999 and divorced in 2000.[26] He married his second wife, scriptwriter and producer Amy Gardner, in 2004. They have a son, William Douglas Sewell (born 2002),[27] and divorced in 2006.[28] Sewell also has a daughter, Lola (born 2013), with Ami Komai.[29][30]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Twenty-One	Bobby
1993	Dirty Weekend	Tim
1994	A Man of No Importance	Robbie Fay
1995	Carrington	Mark Gertler
	Cold Comfort Farm	Seth Starkadder
1996	Hamlet	Fortinbras
	Victory	Martin Ricardo
1997	The Woodlanders	Giles Winterbourne
1998	Dangerous Beauty	Marco Venier
	Dark City	John Murdoch
	The Very Thought of You	Frank
	Illuminata	Dominique
	At Sachem Farm	Ross
1999	In a Savage Land	Mick Carpenter
	Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence	Frank
2000	Bless the Child	Eric Stark
2001	A Knight's Tale	Count Adhemar
2002	Extreme Ops	Ian
2003	Victoria Station	The cabbie	short film
2005	The Legend of Zorro	Count Armand
2006	Tristan and Isolde	Marke
	The Illusionist	Crown Prince Leopold
	Paris, je t'aime	William	Segment: "Père-Lachaise"
	Amazing Grace	Thomas Clarkson
	The Holiday	Jasper Bloom
2008	Downloading Nancy	Albert
	Vinyan	Paul Bellmer
2010	The Tourist	English man
2012	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter	Adam
	Hotel Noir	Felix
2013	All Things to All Men	Parker
	I'll Follow You Down	Gabe
	The Sea	Carlo Grace
2014	Hercules	Autolycus
	The Devil's Hand	Jacob Brown
2015	Blinky Bill the Movie	Sir Claude (voice)
2016	Gods of Egypt	Urshu
2019	Judy	Sidney Luft
2020	The Father	Paul
2021	Old	Charles

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Gone to Seed	Billy	6 episodes
1992–94	Screen Two	Mike Costain Clive	2 episodes
1994	Middlemarch	Will Ladislaw	7 episodes
	Citizen Locke	Midshipman Clarke	Television Movie
1995	Cold Comfort Farm	Seth Starkadder	Television Film
	Performance	Harry Percy	Episode: Henry IV, Part 1
2000	Arabian Nights	Ali Baba	Miniseries
2001	She Creature	Angus	Television Movie
2003	Helen of Troy	Agamemnon	Miniseries
	Charles II: The Power and the Passion	Charles II	4 episodes
2004	Taste	Michael Kuhleman	Television Movie
2005	ShakespeaRe-Told	Petruchio	Episode: The Taming of the Shrew
2006	9/11: Out of the Blue	The Man	Television Movie
2008	John Adams	Alexander Hamilton	2 episodes
2008–09	Eleventh Hour	Dr. Jacob Hood	18 episodes
2010	The Pillars of the Earth	Tom Builder	5 episodes
2011	Zen	Aurelio Zen	3 episodes
2012	Parade's End	Reverend Duchemin	3 episodes
	Restless	Lucas Romer	2 episodes
2015	Killing Jesus	Caiaphas	Television Movie
2016	Secret History	Narrator	Episode: China's Forgotten Emperor
2016–17	Victoria	Lord Melbourne	7 episodes
2018	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Declan Howell	Episode: Look, She Made a Hat
2014–19	The Man in the High Castle	John Smith	40 episodes
2020	The Pale Horse	Mark Easterbrook	BBC1 Miniseries
TBA	Jigsaw	Roger Salas	Main role, upcoming series

Stage

Year	Production	Role	Venue	Ref.
1993	Arcadia	Septimus Hodge	Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre	[31]
2006-07	Rock 'n' Roll	Jan	The Royal Court Theatre, London
2007-08			Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Broadway
2013	Old Times	Deeley	Harold Pinter Theatre, London
2015	Closer	Larry	Donmar Warehouse, London

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
1994	Laurence Olivier Award	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Arcadia	Nominated
1998	London Film Critics' Circle	British Supporting Actor	The Very Thought of You	Nominated
2006	British Academy Television Awards	Best Actor of the Year	ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew	Nominated
2006	Evening Standard Theatre Awards	Best Actor in a Play	Rock 'n' Roll	Won
2007	Laurence Olivier Award	Best Actor in a Play		Won
2008	Tony Awards	Best Actor in a Play		Nominated
2008	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actor in a Play		Nominated
2008	Drama League Award	Distinguished Performance		Nominated
2016	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	The Man in the High Castle	Nominated
2019	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Nominated

References

External links

• Rufus Sewell on Twitter
• Rufus Sewell at IMDb
• Rufus Sewell on the British Film Institute
• Rufus Sewell news and commentary on The Guardian

На других языках

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[de] Rufus Sewell

Rufus Frederick Sewell (* 29. Oktober 1967 in Twickenham, Greater London, England) ist ein britischer Schauspieler.

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[es] Rufus Sewell

Rufus Frederik Sewell (Londres, Inglaterra; 29 de octubre de 1967) es un actor británico de teatro, cine y televisión.

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[ru] Сьюэлл, Руфус

Ру́фус Фре́дерик Сью́элл (англ. Rufus Frederik Sewell; род. 29 октября 1967 (1967-10-29), Туикенем, Англия) — британский актёр театра, кино и телевидения.

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