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
As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.
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.
My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.
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.
Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
Id like an omelet named after me.
Hollywood is my domestic idyll.
Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.
Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.
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.
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.
I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I’m basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions,