Matthew Rhys received further Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for playing the titular role in the period series Perry Mason since 2020.
20 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 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 opposite Brittany Murphy in the independent feature Love and Other Disasters, in Virgin Territory opposite Hayden Christensen, Tim Roth and Mischa Barton, and playing 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' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, left unfinished at his death in 1870.
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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 the sixth season.
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On 15 July 2008, Matthew Rhys was honoured by Aberystwyth University as a Fellow.
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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.