Rufus Sewell
Rufus Sewell
Rufus Frederik Sewellis an English actor. In film, he has appeared in Kenneth Branagh's rendition of Hamletplaying Fortinbras, 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 as an Italian detective in the BBC's television series Zenand also appeared in the mini-series The Pillars of the Earth. In 1993 he played the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC's adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch. In...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 October 1967
I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.
I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.
I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.
I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart.
I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.
I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.
I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.
I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.
I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.
People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.
I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I’m basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions,