Rufus Sewell Net Worth
Rufus Sewell Net Worth is
$5 Million
Rufus Sewell Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Rufus Frederik Sewell 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 as an Italian detective in the BB... Full Name | Rufus Sewell |
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Date Of Birth | October 29, 1967 |
Place Of Birth | Twickenham, United Kingdom |
Height | 6 ft (1.829 m) |
Profession | Actor |
Education | Central School of Speech and Drama |
Nationality | England |
Spouse | Amy Gardner (m. 2004–2006), Yasmin Abdallah (m. 1999–2000) |
Children | William Douglas Sewell |
Parents | Jo Sewell, William Sewell |
Siblings | Caspar Sewell |
Nicknames | Rufus Frederik Sewell , Rufus Frederick Sewell , Roof |
Awards | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer, Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor |
Nominations | Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series, Laurence Olivier ... |
Movies | Hercules, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Holiday, The Illusionist, Dangerous Beauty, Gods of Egypt, The Tourist, Tristan & Isolde, The Pillars of the Earth, The Legend of Zorro, Bless the Child, Cold Comfort Farm, Extreme Ops, Hamlet, Amazing Grace, Downloading Nanc... |
TV Shows | Zen, Eleventh Hour, The Devil's Whore, John Adams, The Man in the High Castle, Charles II: The Power and The Passion |
Star Sign | Scorpio |
# | Trademark |
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1 | Often plays villains |
2 | Gravelly voice |
3 | Lazy eye |
# | Quote |
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1 | I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England. |
2 | I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that. |
3 | 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. |
4 | I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am. |
5 | 'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous. |
6 | 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. |
7 | I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily. |
8 | I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention. |
9 | At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted. |
10 | I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground. |
11 | Hollywood is my domestic idyll. |
12 | Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome. |
13 | If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long. |
14 | Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back. |
15 | 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. |
16 | I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy. |
17 | I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could. |
18 | I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life. |
19 | 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. |
20 | I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights. |
21 | For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else. |
22 | I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions. |
23 | The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse. |
24 | As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity. |
25 | I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release. |
26 | A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself. |
27 | I wasn't 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. |
28 | I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do. |
29 | It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am. |
30 | Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head. |
31 | People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it. |
32 | I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life. |
33 | For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in. |
34 | For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back. |
35 | Well, thing is, after they canceled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that case, it was not my choice. After I've done something that I'm really proud of and I think changes the way I'm perceived, the immediate reaction is: nothing. |
36 | I'd like an omelet named after me. |
37 | I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work. |
38 | Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose. |
39 | Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting. |
40 | I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise. |
41 | I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while. |
42 | I was the lead in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in The Wings Of The Dove with 'Uma Thurman, until that got canceled. I was in Shakespeare in Love (1998) with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart. |
43 | I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you. |
44 | People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. |
45 | 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. |
46 | It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship. I don't actively look for it, I've never been like that. I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while. |
47 | 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. |
48 | First I was seen as a brooding bloke on a horse, and then a baddie, and then a king. |
49 | I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change. |
# | Fact |
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1 | Son of BAFTA-nominated Animation Director, Bill Sewell. |
2 | Currently has the starring role in the TV series "Eleventh Hour" on the (US) CBS Network. [September 2008] |
3 | Currently playing the part of Jan in Tom Stoppard's "Rock and Roll" at the Royal Court Theatre in London (until July 15th 2006) [June 2006] |
4 | Reprises his role and outstanding performance as Jan in Tom Stoppard's new play "Rock and Roll" on Broadway, New York City until March 2008. [December 2007] |
5 | Was in a relationship with actress Alice Eve from 2006 until 2008. |
6 | Involved, along with Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Winslet, Miranda Richardson and Paul McGann in the 1998 film project "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline". The film was to be executive produced by Emma Thompson, and written and directed by Fay Efrosini Lellios. The shooting was set to start in June 1998 in New Hampshire. The film was canceled due to financial withdrawal. [1998] |
7 | His father, Bill Sewell, an animator, employed an impressionistic approach to Rotoscoping - the technique of tracing over film negatives - in his own film "Half in Love with Fred Astaire" and then in the famous "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" sequence in "Yellow Submarine.". |
8 | Grew up in Twickenham. |
9 | Son of a film animator who died young. |
10 | He was awarded the 1992 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Most Promising Newcomer. |
11 | Has a son named William Douglas Sewell (Billy), born 18 March 2002 with Amy Gardner |
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Man in the High Castle | 2015-2016 | TV Series | Obergruppenführer John Smith |
Victoria | 2016 | TV Series | Lord Melbourne |
Rise | 2016/I | Short | Colonel Briggs |
Gods of Egypt | 2016 | Urshu | |
Blinky Bill the Movie | 2015 | The Cat (voice) | |
Killing Jesus | 2015 | TV Movie | Caiaphas |
Dangerous Liaisons | 2014 | TV Movie | Philip Fitzgerald Julien |
The Devil's Hand | 2014 | Jacob Brown | |
Hercules | 2014/I | Autolycus | |
I'll Follow You Down | 2013 | Gabriel | |
The Sea | 2013 | Carlo Grace | |
All Things to All Men | 2013 | Jonathan Parker | |
The Brunchers | 2013 | Short | Tom |
Restless | 2012 | TV Movie | Lucas Romer |
Hotel Noir | 2012 | Felix | |
Parade's End | 2012 | TV Mini-Series | Reverend Duchemin |
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | 2012 | Adam | |
Masterpiece Mystery | 2011 | TV Series | Aurelio Zen |
Zen | 2011 | TV Mini-Series | Aurelio Zen |
The Tourist | 2010 | The Englishman | |
The Pillars of the Earth | 2010 | TV Mini-Series | Tom Builder |
Eleventh Hour | 2008-2009 | TV Series | Dr. Jacob Hood |
Vinyan | 2008 | Paul Bellmer | |
John Adams | 2008 | TV Mini-Series | Alexander Hamilton |
Downloading Nancy | 2008 | Albert Stockwell | |
The Holiday | 2006 | Jasper | |
Amazing Grace | 2006 | Thomas Clarkson | |
Paris, je t'aime | 2006 | William (segment "Pere-Lachaise") | |
The Illusionist | 2006 | Crown Prince Leopold | |
Tristan + Isolde | 2006 | Marke | |
ShakespeaRe-Told | 2005 | TV Mini-Series | Petruchio |
The Legend of Zorro | 2005 | Armand | |
Taste | 2004 | TV Movie | Michael Kuhleman |
The Last King | 2003 | TV Mini-Series | Charles II |
Victoria Station | 2003 | Short | The cabbie |
Helen of Troy | 2003 | TV Mini-Series | Agamemnon |
Extreme Ops | 2002 | Ian | |
Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature | 2001 | TV Movie | Angus |
A Knight's Tale | 2001 | Count Adhemar | |
Bless the Child | 2000 | Eric Stark | |
Arabian Nights | 2000 | TV Mini-Series | Ali Baba |
In a Savage Land | 1999 | Mick Carpenter | |
At Sachem Farm | 1998 | Ross | |
Illuminata | 1998 | Dominique | |
The Very Thought of You | 1998 | Frank | |
Dark City | 1998 | John Murdoch | |
Dangerous Beauty | 1998 | Marco Venier | |
The Woodlanders | 1997 | Giles Winterbourne | |
Hamlet | 1996 | Fortinbras | |
Victory | 1996 | Martin Ricardo | |
Performance | 1995 | TV Series | Harry Percy (Hotspur) |
Carrington | 1995 | Mark Gertler | |
Cold Comfort Farm | 1995 | TV Movie | Seth Starkadder |
A Night with a Woman, a Day with Charlie | 1994 | TV Short | Charlie |
A Man of No Importance | 1994 | Robbie Fay | |
Citizen Locke | 1994 | TV Movie | Midshipman Clarke |
Screen Two | 1992-1994 | TV Series | Clive / Mike Costain |
Middlemarch | 1994 | TV Mini-Series | Will Ladislaw |
Dirty Weekend | 1993 | Tim | |
Gone to Seed | 1992 | TV Series | Billy |
Twenty-One | 1991 | Bobby |
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Gone to Seed | 1992 | TV Series performer: "On the Street Where You Live" |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Poetry, Passion, the Postman: The Poetic Return of Pablo Neruda | 1996 | TV Movie documentary thanks |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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This Morning | 1998-2016 | TV Series | Himself |
Hercules: The Bessi Battle | 2014 | Video short | Himself |
Hercules: Weapons! | 2014 | Video short | Himself |
Hercules and His Mercenaries | 2014 | Video short | Himself |
No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka | 2013 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
The BAFTA Britannia Awards | 2012 | TV Special | Himself |
Up Close with Carrie Keagan | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
Entertainment Tonight | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
Dark City: Memories of Shell Beach | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
The 62nd Annual Tony Awards | 2008 | TV Special | Himself - Nominee: Best Leading Actor in a Play |
100 höjdare | 2008 | TV Series | Himself - Interviewed at Sundance Film Festival |
British Film Forever | 2007 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace | 2007 | Video documentary short | Himself |
The Making of 'The Illusionist' | 2007 | Video short | Himself |
9/11: Out of the Blue | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | The Man |
Love Conquers All: The Making of Tristan + Isolde | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
The Legend of Zorro: Armand's Party | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
The Stunts of 'The Legend of Zorro' | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
The Making of 'Charles II' | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | |
Sexy Armor and a Rock Band on Tour | 2001 | Video documentary short | Himself |
HBO First Look | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
To Be on Camera: A History with Hamlet | 1997 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Poetry, Passion, the Postman: The Poetic Return of Pablo Neruda | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Welcome to the Basement | 2016 | TV Series | John Murdoch |
Chelsea Lately | 2012 | TV Series | Adam |
Open Sesame: The Making of 'Arabian Nights' | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Ali Baba (uncredited) |
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2016 | Critics' Choice TV Award | Critics Choice Television Awards | Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | The Man in the High Castle (2015) |
2013 | OFTA Television Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Actor in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | Restless (2012) |
2011 | Dagger | Crime Thriller Awards, UK | Best Leading Actor | Zen (2011) |
2006 | BAFTA TV Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Actor | ShakespeaRe-Told (2005) |
1999 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Actor | Dark City (1998) |