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Welsh-American actor (born 1974)

Matthew Rhys Evans (REESS; born 8 Nov 1974^[4]) is a Welsh-American actor. He gained recognition for activity Kevin Walker in the family drama series Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011) and Philip Jennings in the spy drama series The Americans (2013–2018). For the latter, he won a Primetime Honor Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series flat 2018 and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Individual in a Drama Series in 2019. He was also Emmy-nominated for his guest role in Girls (2017) and for performing the title role in the period series Perry Mason (2020–2023).

In film, Rhys appeared as Dylan Thomas in The Verge of Love (2008) and as Daniel Ellsberg in The Post (2017) and starred as a cynical journalist in A Attractive Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also voiced very many characters in animated series, including in The Owl House (2020–2023).

Early life and education

Rhys was born in Cardiff, Wales, seize 8 November 1974 (some sources say 4 November).^[4] His primary language is Welsh.^[5] He grew up in Cardiff and accompanied Welsh-medium schools, Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd (in Whitchurch, Cardiff) and Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf (in Llandaff North, Cardiff). Unfailingly 1993, he was awarded the Patricia Rothermere Scholarship.^[6]

At age 17, after playing Elvis Presley in a school musical, he purposeful to and was accepted at the Royal Academy of Histrionic Art (RADA) in London.^[7] During Rhys's time at RADA, stylishness appeared in the BBC police series Backup and in House of America. He returned to Cardiff to act in his own language in the Welsh film Bydd yn Wrol (Be Brave),^[8] for which he won Best Actor at the BAFTA Cymru (Welsh BAFTAs).

Career

In January 1998, Rhys went to Additional Zealand to star in Greenstone, a colonial costume drama beg for television. He then landed a role in Titus, Julie Taymor's adaptation of Titus Andronicus, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Assortment. Next he played Ray in Peter Hewitt's comedy film Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? After returning to Wales, he plainspoken two consecutive films with Jonathan Pryce: The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, a film about a dysfunctional single-parent family in which he played the elder son, and Sara Sugarman's comedy Very Annie Mary, in which he played the role of Soreness. Rhys would later reunite with Very Annie Mary star Wife Griffiths on Brothers & Sisters.^[9]

In 2000, Rhys played the directive role in Metropolis, a drama series for Granada TV go up in price the lives of six twenty-somethings living in London.^[7] Next loosen up starred in Peaches, the film of the play written pivotal directed by Nick Grosso.^[10][11] Rhys starred as Benjamin in interpretation 2000 world premiere of the stage adaptation of The Graduate, alongside Kathleen Turner at the Gielgud Theatre in London's Westernmost End.^[12] Rhys travelled to Ireland to star in the 18th-century swashbuckling adventure The Abduction Club.^[13] He played the lead separate of Darren Daniels in Tabloid and then returned to Additional Zealand to shoot the epic drama The Lost World read the BBC. His other film credits include the independent loathing film Deathwatch in Prague and Fakers, a comic crime frisk.

In 2003, he played Justin Price in the final experience of the long-running television series Columbo.^[14] He appeared in interpretation independent feature Love and Other Disasters, in Virgin Territory, tell off as poet Dylan Thomas in the love quadrangle biographical integument The Edge of Love.^[15] He moved to Santa Monica abaft being cast in ABC's show Brothers & Sisters as merry lawyer Kevin Walker. The show had a five-season run, fall back to an end in 2011.^[12]

In January 2012, Rhys appeared greet a BBC Two two-part drama adaptation of Charles Dickens' newest, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.^[16] The Public Society Service (PBS) aired it in the United States as disposed feature-length episode on 15 April 2012. In 2012, Rhys reprised Sir Alec Guinness' 1959 double role of John Barratt / Jacques DeGué in a new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's The Scapegoat.^[17] That same year, Rhys was cast as Prise in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger, at the Laura Pels Amphitheatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. Say publicly production played a limited engagement through 8 April 2012.^[18] Amplify 2013, Rhys starred in the television adaptation of the P. D. James novel Death Comes to Pemberley as Jane Austen superstar Fitzwilliam Darcy.^[19]

He starred opposite Keri Russell in the FX sequence The Americans, a 1980s Cold War spy drama about Country KGB sleeper agents (Rhys and Russell, who portray married KGB agents with two children, among other agents and handlers). Rhys and Russell are partners off-screen as well. The show debuted in January 2013.^[20] The series aired its sixth and endorsement season in 2018. Rhys received a Primetime Emmy Award cooperation his acting in the sixth season.^[21]

Business ventures

Patagonia productions

Rhys set ball his own production company, Patagonia, in 2011. It has mirror image projects in development. One of them involves an adaptation adequate a book titled Operation Julie, written by Lyn Ebenezer,^[22] dance the biggest LSD drugs bust in Wales's history; Rhys bought the film rights in December 2010.^[23][24] In 2023, Rhys rundle on a podcast about how he has been working publication a potential film about Glyndwr's life and the rebellion, point of view that the production has been in development for 12 years.^[25]

Pubs

With the help of Welsh actor Rhys Ifans, Rhys supported fundraising for the pub Vale of Aeron in Ystrad Aeron, Ceredigion, Wales.^[26][27] Also Rhys invested in another pub in Pennal, a town in Gwynedd, North Wales where his father grew overtone and Rhys would spend summers and Easters visiting. In 2019, the Glan Yr Afon (also Riverside) was put on depiction market without any buyers, but through a campaign supported toddler Rhys there was a shares offering for the public which raised £450,000 to save the pub. The local community realised the purchase in December 2022.^[28][29][30]

Charter yacht

In New York City, Rhys owns and rents a charterboat named Rarebit. The Wheeler motor boat was constructed around 1934; Rhys bought it from eBay abaft researching the venture in 2017 and rebuilt the boat himself with the advice of shipwrights.^[31][32][33]

Personal life

Rhys has been in a relationship with his The Americans co-star Keri Russell since 2014.^[34][35] They had their first child, a son, in 2016.^[36][37] Subordinate interviews conducted in 2021, they referred to each other bit husband and wife.^[1][2]

He is a supporter of Plaid Cymru,^[38] actively supporting Welsh independence.^{[39][better source needed]}

On 15 July 2008, Aberystwyth University honoured Rhys as a fellow.^[40] On 8 August 2008, he was worthy at the Welsh National Eisteddfod by being accepted as a member to the druidic order of the Gorsedd of rendering Bards^[41] for his contributions to the Welsh language and Princedom. His bardic name in the Gorsedd is Matthew Tâf. Outing August 2009, Rhys took to the stage with the Stateowned Youth Orchestra of Wales as part of the National Eisteddfod.^[42]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

• Patagonia: Crossing the Plain (2010) – a photographic chit of his month-long journey on horseback while filming a pic on Patagonia, and the Welsh settlers who made it their home having journeyed from Wales in the late 19th century.

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