Rufus Sewell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1967-10-29 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

Twickenham, England, UK

Rufus Sewell

Biography

Rufus Frederik Sewell (born 29 October 1967) is an English actor. In film, he has appeared in The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, The Illusionist, Tristan and Isolde, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. On television, he starred in the 2010 mini-series The Pillars of the Earth. Earlier he played the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch. In 2003, he appeared in the lead role in Charles II: The Power and The Passion. He starred in the CBS drama Eleventh Hour which was cancelled in April 2009. On stage, he originated the role of Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and t...

Acting

2006

The Illusionist

as Crown Prince Leopold

2006

The Holiday

as Jasper

2005

2006

Paris Je T'aime

as William (Père-Lachaise)

1998

Dark City

as John Murdoch

2000

Bless the Child

as Eric Stark

2024

Scoop

as Prince Andrew

2001

1998

Dangerous Beauty

as Marco Venier

1995

Cold Comfort Farm

as Seth Starkadder

2006

2001

A Knight's Tale

as Count Adhemar

2006

Amazing Grace

as Thomas Clarkson

2002

2010

The Tourist

as The Englishman

2008

Vinyan

as Paul Belhmer

1996

Victory

as Martin Ricardo

2025

The Uninvited

as Gerald

2008

Downloading Nancy

as Albert Stockwell

1994

1993

1998

Illuminata

as Dominique

1998

The Woodlanders

as Giles Winterbourne

2012

Hotel Noir

as Felix

1991

Twenty-one

as Bobby

2014

Hercules

as Autolycus

1999

In a Savage Land

as Mick Carpenter

2013

The Sea

as Carlo Grace

2014

The Devil's Hand

as Jacob Brown

1992

The Last Romantics

as Mike Costain

2003

Victoria Station

as The Cabbie

1995

Henry IV

as Harry Percy (Hotspur)

1996

Hamlet

as Fortinbras

2013

I'll Follow You Down

as Gabriel 'Gabe' Whyte

2006

Out of the Blue

as English Trader

1994

2015

Killing Jesus

as Caiaphas

2016

1994

Citizen Locke

as Midshipman Clarke

2015

Blinky Bill the Movie

as The Cat (voice)

2016

2014

1995

Carrington

as Mark Gertler

2019

Judy

as Sid Luft

2005

2020

The Father

as Paul

2021

Old

as Charles

2014

Dangerous Liaisons

as Philip Fitzgerald Julien

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Billion Dollar Spy

as Gus Hathaway

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