Phillip was born in Croydon, South London, the second of three sons. After graduating from Westminster College he spent a year living and working in Paris. He returned to London to study acting with Marianna Hill at the Lee Strasberg Institute, and later with Jeffrey Tambor and Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse in Los Angeles. Phillip...
The Scarecrow directed by Phillip was an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Sundance Institute Alumni.
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Inner City Shakespeare Advisory Board Member.
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Phillip has a sneaker named after him, "The Rhys", by LA based footwear company, Keep.
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Phillip co-starred with the late Dennis Hopper in Flatland (2002), the first US show to be shot entirely in mainland China.
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Rhys is a supporter of Arsenal FC.
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First fame was as a model for a Woolworths catalogue, aged 10.
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Went to the same Primary school as Julia and Nadia Sawalha, All Saint's C of E School in Upper Norwood, albeit some 3 years after them.
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His grandmother, Janine Klotza, was one of France's Prima Ballerina's in the 1920s, performing all the major ballets in pre WWII Europe, except Gisele, after whom she named her only daughter, Phillip's mother.
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Went to St. Joseph's College, Upper Norwood for his Secondary Education.