Rhys Ifans
Rhys Ifans
Rhys Ifans is a Welsh actor and musician. He is known for his portrayal of characters such as Spike in Notting Hill, Jed Parry in Enduring Love and Eyeball Paul in Kevin & Perry Go Large. He is also known as a member of the rock groups Super Furry Animals and The Peth. Ifans also appeared as Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, and as Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man. He...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 July 1967
CityHaverfordwest, England
I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.
My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?
I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot.
When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.
I'm a real magpie when it comes to music; it's all random, and there's no pattern to what I like.
When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.
What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.
There is no such thing as a criminal life. Life is life, and life is criminalized. No one ever, in the history of life, has chosen a criminal life. No one has ever said, 'I want to be a criminal.' No one ever has done that.
When I was young, I was in a hurry to live. And now I'm just not in a hurry.
For me, 'Come and See' is, by a million miles, the best film about war that has ever been made. I would highly recommend, encourage and enforce anyone to watch it.
It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.
I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but I am convinced that the Stratfordian William Shakespeare was not. My feeling is that it was an amalgamation of many writers, in the same way that most films are a collaborative endeavor.
Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable.
It's every boy's dream to play Captain Hook.