1. Rufus Sewell's parents divorced when Sewell was five and his father died when he was 10.
21 Facts About Rufus Sewell
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Rufus Sewell went on to Orleans Park School, a state comprehensive school in Twickenham, which he left in 1984, followed by West Thames College, where a drama teacher sent him to audition for drama school.
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Rufus Sewell later enrolled at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
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Also in 1993 Rufus Sewell starred in the BBC serial of George Eliot's Middlemarch and on stage in Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia at The Royal National Theatre.
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Amazing Grace deals with William Wilberforce's political fight to abolish slavery in Britain, with Rufus Sewell playing Wilberforce's co-campaigner Thomas Clarkson.
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Rufus Sewell is known for his villainous roles, such as those in A Knight's Tale, The Legend of Zorro, Bless the Child, Helen of Troy and The Illusionist.
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In 2008, Rufus Sewell appeared in the HBO miniseries John Adams as Alexander Hamilton.
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Rufus Sewell received critical praise for his portrayal of Charles II in the BBC's Charles II: The Power and The Passion.
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Rufus Sewell co-starred in the controversial film Downloading Nancy, which was released on 5 June 2009.
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Rufus Sewell appeared in the premiere and first run of Tom Stoppard's play Rock 'n' Roll at the Royal Court Theatre from June to July 2006 and at the Duke of York's Theatre from July until November 2006.
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Rufus Sewell has recorded eleven of Ian Fleming's James Bond books on 36 CDs for Collins.
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Rufus Sewell continues to work in film, television and theatre, playing the lead role of Dr Jacob Hood in the CBS TV series Eleventh Hour.
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Rufus Sewell finished filming in November 2009 for the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, which was shown on TV in 2010.
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Rufus Sewell had a small part in the film The Tourist, which starred Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp and was released in cinemas in 2010.
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Rufus Sewell played the lead vampire, Adam, in the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which was filmed in New Orleans and released in June 2012.
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Rufus Sewell played the role of Ethics Man in Darkside, Tom Stoppard's 2013 radio drama based on Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon.
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Rufus Sewell co-starred with Dwayne Johnson, as Autolycus, in the film Hercules, which was released in July 2014.
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In 2015, Rufus Sewell voiced the role of Sir Claude, a feral cat, in Blinky Bill the Movie.
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Rufus Sewell has most recently appeared as high-ranking American-turned-Nazi official John Smith in The Man in the High Castle, and as Lord Melbourne in Victoria.
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In February 2023, it was announced that Rufus Sewell had been cast as Prince Andrew in Scoop, a Netflix drama about Andrew's 2019 Newsnight interview, co-starring Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis, Billie Piper and Keeley Hawes.
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Rufus Sewell married his second wife, scriptwriter and producer Amy Gardner, in 2004 and divorced in 2006.