Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1977-07-27 (48 years old)

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Biography

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is an Irish actor and model. He is best known for his roles in the films Velvet Goldmine, Bend It Like Beckham, Woody Allen's Match Point and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries Elvis, which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor, and as King Henry VIII in the historical drama The Tudors. In two of his films, Velvet Goldmine and August Rush, he also took over singing parts. He has been the face of several advertising campaigns for Hugo Boss fragrances.

Acting

1998

Velvet Goldmine

as Brian Slade

2004

Alexander

as Cassander

1999

B. Monkey

as Bruno

2007

August Rush

as Louis Connelly

2023

97 Minutes

as Alex

2025

Food Fight

as Charlie

1999

Ride with the Devil

as Pitt Mackeson

2004

Vanity Fair

as George Osborne

2010

From Paris with Love

as James Reece

2003

1999

Titus

as Chiron

2022

2008

2010

6 Souls

as David / Adam / Wesley

2003

The Emperor's Wife

as Chamberlain

1999

2023

Mercy

as Sean Quinn

2001

2001

Tangled

as Alan Hammond

1997

The Maker

as Josh Minnell

1998

The Governess

as Henry Cavendish

2012

2002

The Magnificent Ambersons

as George Amberson Minafer

2013

Another Me

as John

2005

Match Point

as Chris Wilton

2015

Stonewall

as Trevor

2022

Wifelike

as William

1998

The Tribe

as Adam

2003

Octane

as The Father

1997

2011

Albert Nobbs

as Viscount Yarrell

2008

2017

Damascus Cover

as Ari Ben-Sion / Hans Hoffmann

2023

Disquiet

as Sam

2023

Ambush

as Miller

-

The Rising: 1916

as P. H. Pearse

2017

2017

London Town

as Joe Strummer

1997

-

The Paralytic

as Carpenter

1996

Michael Collins

as Collin's Assassin

1996

Killer Tongue

as Rudolph

2013

Eternal Return

as Narrator

-

Eyes in the Trees

as Vince Henway

2017

The 12th Man

as Kurt Stage

2017

2003

1994

A Man of No Importance

as First Young Man

2019

The Aspern Papers

as Morton Vint

2019

Holy Lands

as David

2001

Happy Now

as Mark Wraith

2019

Awake

as John Doe

2021

2021

American Night

as John Kaplan

2021

1996

Samson and Delilah

as Sansone (14 years)

2021

Hide and Seek

as Noah Blackwell

2021

Edge of the World

as Sir James Brooke

2005

Elvis

as Elvis Presley

-

Viper

as Trey 'Wolf' Johnson

Production

2017

Damascus Cover

as Producer

2019

The Aspern Papers

as Executive Producer

2017

The 12th Man

as Executive Producer

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