1. Matthew Rhys was Emmy-nominated for his guest role in Girls and for playing the title role in the period series Perry Mason.
26 Facts About Matthew Rhys
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In film, Rhys appeared as Dylan Thomas in The Edge of Love and as Daniel Ellsberg in The Post and starred as a cynical journalist in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
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Matthew Rhys has voiced several characters in animated series, including Emperor Belos in The Owl House.
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Matthew Rhys was born in Cardiff, Wales, on 8 November 1974.
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Matthew Rhys grew up in Cardiff and attended Welsh-medium schools, Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd and Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf.
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Matthew Rhys returned to Cardiff to act in his own language in the Welsh film Bydd yn Wrol, for which he won Best Actor at the BAFTA Cymru.
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In January 1998, Matthew Rhys went to New Zealand to star in Greenstone, a colonial costume drama for television.
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Matthew Rhys then landed a role in Titus, Julie Taymor's adaptation of Titus Andronicus, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange.
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In 2000, Matthew Rhys played the lead role in Metropolis, a drama series for Granada TV about the lives of six twenty-somethings living in London.
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Matthew Rhys starred as Benjamin in the 2000 world premiere of the stage adaptation of The Graduate, alongside Kathleen Turner at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End.
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Matthew Rhys travelled to Ireland to star in the 18th-century swashbuckling adventure The Abduction Club.
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Matthew Rhys played the lead role of Darren Daniels in Tabloid and then returned to New Zealand to shoot the epic drama The Lost World for the BBC.
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Matthew Rhys appeared in the independent feature Love and Other Disasters, in Virgin Territory, and as poet Dylan Thomas in the love quadrangle biographical film The Edge of Love.
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In January 2012, Matthew Rhys appeared in a BBC Two two-part drama adaptation of Charles Dickens's last, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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That same year, Matthew Rhys was cast as Jimmy in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger, at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre.
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Matthew Rhys starred opposite Keri Russell in the FX series The Americans, a 1980s Cold War spy drama about Russian KGB sleeper agents.
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Matthew Rhys received a Primetime Emmy Award for his acting in the sixth season.
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Matthew Rhys set up his own production company, Patagonia, in 2011.
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One of them involves an adaptation of a book titled Operation Julie, written by Lyn Ebenezer, about the biggest LSD drugs bust in Wales's history; Matthew Rhys bought the film rights in December 2010.
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In 2023, Matthew Rhys spoke on a podcast about how he has been working on a potential film about Glyndwr's life and the rebellion, and that the production has been in development for 12 years.
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Matthew Rhys invested in another pub in Pennal, a town in Gwynedd, North Wales, where his father grew up and Matthew Rhys would spend summers and Easters visiting.
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In New York City, Matthew Rhys owns and rents a charter boat named Rarebit.
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The Wheeler boat was constructed circa 1934; Matthew Rhys bought it from eBay after researching the venture in 2017.
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Matthew Rhys rebuilt the boat himself with the advice of shipwrights.
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Matthew Rhys has been in a relationship with his The Americans co-star Keri Russell since 2014.
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Matthew Rhys is a supporter of Plaid Cymru, actively supporting Welsh independence.