Matthew Rhys
Matthew Rhys
Matthew Rhys Evans, known professionally as Matthew Rhys, is a Welsh actor. He is known for his Emmy-nominated role as Philip Jennings on the FX drama series The Americans. He also starred as Kevin Walker on the ABC television drama Brothers & Sisters, and as Dylan Thomas in The Edge of Love...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth8 November 1974
CityCardiff, Wales
thinking people towns
I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.
cutting thinking careers
It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.
mother america fields
I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.
home technology media
I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.
patagonia decades
I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life.
dark order actors
I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!
morning sea people
I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.
kids cool-kid
I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.
clothes house cheese
Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear,' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky.
shifting easy planes
I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.
hard-work theatre want
I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding,
play publication
You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.
thinking television way
I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.
thinking numbers people
I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.