Paul Rhys

Paul Rhys was born on Dec 19, 1963 in UK. Paul Rhys's big-screen debut came with Absolute Beginners directed by Julien Temple in 1986, strarring Dean Swift. Paul Rhys is known for The Assets directed by Trygve Allister Diesen, Jodie Whittaker stars as Sandy Grimes and Paul Rhys as Aldrich Ames. The most recent award Paul Rhys achieved is Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (BIFFF). The upcoming new movie Paul Rhys plays is Napoleon which will be released on Nov 22, 2023.

Paul Rhys was born on 19 December 1963 in Neath, Wales,to working class Catholic parents, Kathryn Ivory, and Richard Charles Rhys, a laborer. He received a Bernard Shaw Scholarship to study at RADA. In the first term he was spotted by Philip Prowse and was invited to perform in Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre. While still at RADA, he appeared in his first film role as Dean Swift in Julien Temple's film Absolute Beginners (1986).He then was in Franklin J. Schaffner's Lionheart (1987), and played opposite Colin Firth in Richard Eyre's award-winning film Tumbledown (1988). Director Robert Altman cast him as Vincent van Gogh's younger brother Theo in Vincent et Théo (1990) He then played Sydney Chaplin opposite Robert Downey Jr.'s Charlie Chaplin in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin (1992), and Massis in Alan Bennett's Screen Two: 102 Boulevard Haussmann (1990). Next film roles include the part of the Photographer in A Touch of Love (1994) and Dr Ferral in From Hell (2001). He appeared opposite Peter O'Toole in Rebecca's Daughters (1992). A series of films followed including From Hell (2001), Food of Love (2002), Love Lies Bleeding (1999), Devenir Colette (1991) and Hellraiser VII: Deader (2005).Running parallel to Rhys's film work has been a diverse and notable television career, working in leading roles with directors such as Mike Hodges, Stephen Frears, Richard Eyre, Philip Martin, Christopher Morahan, Tom Vaughan, Edward Hall, Harry Bradbeer in productions including Tumbledown (1988), A Dance to the Music of Time (1997), The Heroes (1989), Ghosts, Gallowglass (1993), The Healer (1994), Anna Karénine (1997), The Deal, Beethoven (2005), Les dix commandements (2006), Borgia (2011), Luther (2010), and [Spooks].He played the lead as traitor Aldrich Ames in The Assets (2014) miniseries, as King George III in TURN: Washington's Spies (2014) and as Sir John Conroy in Victoria (2016). Rhys has made a minor industry out of playing vampires: Being Human, la confrérie de l'étrange (2008) (as Ivan);( as Vlad, the Prince of Wallachia, aka Dracula, in seasons 1-3 of the 2015 series Da Vinci's Demons (2013); and as Andrew Hubbard in two seasons of the 2020-22 hit, Le livre perdu des sortilèges: A Discovery of Witches (2018).Paul Rhys lives in London and New York.