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
My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.
I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.
Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.
Ive always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
People talk about me in Arcadia and I think I was okay in it but Ive given better performances in other productions that didnt have the same impact. But I knew Arcadia was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.
Hollywood is my domestic idyll.
Id like an omelet named after me.
Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
I wasnt a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.
When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.
I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England.