topic: Rufus Sewell

Rufus Frederik Sewell (born 29 October 1967) is an English actor. In film, he has regarded within the Woodlanders, bad beauty, dark metropolis, A Knight's tale, The Illusionist, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. On tv, he grew to become smartly usual for his role as the hero, Will Ladislaw, within the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch. In 2003, he appeared within the lead role in Charles II: The energy and The passion. He starred in the CBS drama Eleventh Hour which become cancelled in April 2009. On stage, he originated the position of Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the role of Jan in Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, which earned him an Olivier Award and a Tony Award nomination for the latter efficiency. Sewell changed into born in Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in South West London, the son of William Sewell, an Australian animator, and Jo, a Welsh artist and waitress. His father worked on the Lucy within the Sky with Diamonds phase of animation for The Beatles' Yellow Submarine film. His fogeys divorced when Sewell changed into five and his mom labored to guide her two sons. His father died when Sewell turned into 10, and through his personal admission he became a tough teenager. Sewell attended Orleans Park faculty, which he left in 1984. in a while, a drama instructor at West Thames faculty spotted his promise and sent him to audition for drama college. He enrolled at the critical faculty of Speech and Drama in London. After graduating, he was install with an agent with the aid of Dame Judi Dench who had directed him in a play while at important.