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 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.
People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.
I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
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.
My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. 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.
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.
I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.
'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous.
I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.
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 know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.
Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.