Acting

Rufus Sewell

Born 1967-10-29 · Twickenham, England, UK

Rufus Frederik Sewell (born 29 October 1967) is an English actor. In film, he has appeared in 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 in the 2010 mini-series The Pillars of the Earth. Earlier he played the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch. In 2003, he appeared in the lead role in Charles II: The Power and The Passion. He starred in the CBS drama Eleventh Hour which was cancelled in April 2009. On stage, he originated the role 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 performance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rufus Sewell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Pride and Prejudice
as Mr. Bennet
2026
This Ordinary Thing
as Self (voice)
2025
Return to Dark City
as Self
2025
The Uninvited
as Gerald
2025
The Trouble with Jessica
as Richard
2024
Scoop
as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
2024
The Diplomat
as Hal Wyler
2023
Kaleidoscope
as Roger Salas
2023
The Sandman
as Time
2022
Old
as Charles
2021
The Father
as Paul
2020
The Pale Horse
as Mark Easterbrook
2020
Judy
as Sid Luft
2019
Modern/Love in 7 Short Films
as Tom
2019
Victoria
as Lord Melbourne
2016
Gods of Egypt
as Urshu
2016
Rise
2016
Blinky Bill the Movie
as The Cat (voice)
2015
Killing Jesus
as Caiaphas
2015
The Man in the High Castle
as John Smith
2015
The Devil's Hand
as Jacob Brown
2014
Hercules
as Autolycus
2014
The Brunchers
as Tom
2013
I'll Follow You Down
as Gabriel 'Gabe' Whyte
2013
The Sea
as Carlo Grace
2013
All Things To All Men
as Parker
2013
Restless
as Lucas Romer
2012
Hotel Noir
as Felix
2012
Parade's End
as Reverend Duchemin, Edith's husband
2012
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
as Adam
2012
Zen
as Aurelio Zen
2011
The Tourist
as The Englishman
2010
The Pillars of the Earth
as Tom Builder
2010
Eleventh Hour
as Jacob Hood
2008
Vinyan
as Paul Belhmer
2008
Dark City: Memories of Shell Beach
as Self
2008
John Adams
as Alexander Hamilton
2008
Downloading Nancy
as Albert Stockwell
2008
British Film Forever
2007
Amazing Grace
as Thomas Clarkson
2007
The Holiday
as Jasper
2006
Out of the Blue
as English Trader
2006
The Illusionist
as Crown Prince Leopold
2006
Paris Je T'aime
as William (Père-Lachaise)
2006
Tristan & Isolde
as Marke
2006
The Taming of the Shrew
as Petruchio
2005
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005
The Legend of Zorro
as Armand
2005
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as Charles II
2003
Victoria Station
as The Cabbie
2003
Helen of Troy
as King Agamemnon of Mycenae
2003
Extreme Ops
as Ian
2002
A Knight's Tale: Making Of
as Self
2002
Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature
as Angus
2001
A Knight's Tale
as Count Adhemar
2001
Higher Love
as Ross
2001
Bless the Child
as Eric Stark
2000
Arabian Nights
as Ali Baba
2000
In a Savage Land
as Mick Carpenter
1999
Illuminata
as Dominique
1998
The Very Thought of You
as Frank
1998
Dark City
as John Murdoch
1998
Dangerous Beauty
as Marco Venier
1998
The Woodlanders
as Giles Winterbourne
1998
Hamlet
as Fortinbras
1996
Victory
as Martin Ricardo
1996
Henry IV
as Harry Percy (Hotspur)
1995
Carrington
as Mark Gertler
1995
Cold Comfort Farm
as Seth Starkadder
1995
A Man of No Importance
as Robbie Fay
1994
Citizen Locke
as Midshipman Clarke
1994
Dirtysomething
as Clive
1994
Middlemarch
as Will Ladislaw
1994
Dirty Weekend
as Tim
1993
Gone to Seed
as Billy Brooker
1992
The Last Romantics
as Mike Costain
1992
Performance
as Hotspur
1991
Twenty-One
as Bobby
1991
Screen Two
as Mike Costain
1985
Screen Two
as Clive
1985