Name
Rufus Sewell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1967-10-29 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Twickenham, England, UK
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 the role of Jan in Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, which earned him an Olivier Award and a Tony Award nomination for the latter performance.
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- 2006 The Illusionist as Crown Prince Leopold
- 2006 The Holiday as Jasper
- 2005 The Legend of Zorro as Armand
- 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 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
- 2001 Higher Love as Ross
- 1998 The Very Thought of You as Frank
- 1998 Dangerous Beauty as Marco Venier
- 1995 Cold Comfort Farm as Seth Starkadder
- 2006 Tristan & Isolde as Marke
- 2001 A Knight's Tale as Count Adhemar
- 2001 Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature as Angus
- 2007 Amazing Grace as Thomas Clarkson
- 2002 Extreme Ops as Ian
- 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 A Man of No Importance as Robbie Fay
- 1993 Dirty Weekend as Tim
- 2012 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter as Adam
- Soon All That I Am
- 1998 Illuminata as Dominique
- 1998 The Woodlanders as Giles Winterbourne
- 2012 Hotel Noir as Felix
- 1991 Twenty-One as Bobby
- 2013 All Things To All Men as Parker
- 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 Dirtysomething as Clive
- 2015 Killing Jesus as Caiaphas
- 2016 Gods of Egypt as Urshu
- 2024 The Trouble with Jessica as Richard
- 1994 Citizen Locke as Midshipman Clarke
- 2015 Blinky Bill the Movie as The Cat (voice)
- 2016 Rise
- 2013 The Brunchers as Tom
- 1995 Carrington as Mark Gertler
- 2019 Judy as Sid Luft
- 2005 The Taming of the Shrew as Petruchio
- 2020 The Father as Paul
- 2021 Old as Charles
- 2002 A Knight's Tale: Making Of as Self
- 2019 Modern/Love in 7 Short Films as Tom
- Soon Mr. Sunny Sky
- 2025 Return to Dark City as Self
- Soon Billion Dollar Spy as Gus Hathaway
- 2025 This Ordinary Thing as Self (voice)
- 2008 Dark City: Memories of Shell Beach as Self
- 2003 Helen of Troy ( 2 episodes ) as King Agamemnon of Mycenae
- 2008 Eleventh Hour ( 18 episodes ) as Jacob Hood
- 2005 ShakespeaRe-Told ( 1 episode )
- 1994 Middlemarch ( 6 episodes ) as Will Ladislaw
- 2016 Victoria ( 7 episodes ) as Lord Melbourne
- 2008 John Adams ( 2 episodes ) as Alexander Hamilton
- 2011 Zen ( 3 episodes ) as Aurelio Zen
- 2010 The Pillars of the Earth ( 8 episodes ) as Tom Builder
- 2015 The Man in the High Castle ( 40 episodes ) as John Smith
- 2023 Kaleidoscope ( 9 episodes ) as Roger Salas
- 2012 Restless ( 2 episodes ) as Lucas Romer
- 2000 Arabian Nights ( 2 episodes ) as Ali Baba
- 2023 The Diplomat ( 30 episodes ) as Hal Wyler
- 1992 Gone to Seed ( 6 episodes ) as Billy Brooker
- 2020 The Pale Horse ( 2 episodes ) as Mark Easterbrook
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Mike Costain
- 1991 Performance ( 1 episode ) as Hotspur
- 2022 The Sandman ( 1 episode ) as Time
- 2026 Pride and Prejudice ( 6 episodes ) as Mr. Bennet
- 2003 Charles II: The Power and The Passion ( 4 episodes ) as Charles II
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Clive
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee
- 2012 Parade's End ( 1 episode ) as Reverend Duchemin, Edith's husband
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Robbie Fay
- 2007 British Film Forever ( 1 episode )
- Soon Queenstown ( 8 episodes )
