Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

1977-07-27 Dublin, Ireland 72 Credits

Biography

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is an Irish actor and model. He is best known for his roles in the films Velvet Goldmine, Bend It Like Beckham, Woody Allen's Match Point and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries Elvis, which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor, and as King Henry VIII in the historical drama The Tudors. In two of his films, Velvet Goldmine and August Rush, he also took over singing parts. He has been the face of several advertising campaigns for Hugo B...

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Food Fight

2025

as Charlie

Acting

A cancelled film about two ruthless rivals who come head-to-head in this intense battle of culinary supremacy of the Mediterranean. Malta is the epice...

Operation Blood Hunt

Operation Blood Hunt

2024

as Murphy

4.2
Acting

Prolific expert of the occult and whiskey, Reverend Conte, accompanies a ragtag group of military rejects to a remote South Pacific Island to investig...

The Clean Up Crew

The Clean Up Crew

2024

as Alex

5.6
Acting

When a crime scene clean up crew discovers a briefcase full of money, they must out smart a criminal kingpin and corrupt FBI agents who want it back.

97 Minutes

97 Minutes

2023

as Alex

4.7
Acting

A hijacked 767 will crash in just 97 minutes when its fuel runs out. Against the strong will of NSA Deputy Toyin, NSA Director Hawkins prepares to hav...

Mercy

Mercy

2023

as Sean Quinn

6.1
Acting

An ex-military doctor finds herself in a deadly battle for survival when the Irish mafia seize control of the hospital at which she works. When her so...

Ambush

Ambush

2023

as Miller

6.4
Acting

When a small outpost is ambushed, a US Army squad must take the battle below ground on a high-stakes mission in a new type of warfare the likes of whi...

Disquiet

Disquiet

2023

as Sam

5.3
Acting

After a near-fatal car accident, Sam wakes to discover he is trapped in an abandoned hospital by mysterious and sinister forces that have no intention...

Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders

Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders

2022

as Kyle

6.3
Acting

A family reunion at a remote mansion takes a lethal turn when they are trapped inside and forced to play a deadly survival game where only one will ma...

Wifelike

Wifelike

2022

as William

6.8
Acting

A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an ...

The Good Neighbor

The Good Neighbor

2022

as Robert

6.5
Acting

A nightmarish evening unfolds for David, a former New York Times journalist, when he and his strange new neighbor Robert, accidentally hit a girl on h...

The Survivalist

The Survivalist

2021

as Ben

4.2
Acting

A year and a half after the fall of civilization from a virus outbreak, a former FBI agent is forced to protect a young woman, who is immune to the di...

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek

2021

as Noah Blackwell

4.7
Acting

Noah is seeking to reconnect with his outcast brother after the death of their father. He hopes to make amends and share the family's fortune, but ins...

American Night

American Night

2021

as John Kaplan

4.1
Acting

A neo-noir set in the New York City's corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York's mafia, Micha...

Edge of the World

Edge of the World

2021

as Sir James Brooke

5.6
Acting

Sarawak, in the northeast of the island of Borneo, 1839. Almost by chance, the British adventurer James Brooke is appointed rajah by the Sultan of Bru...

Yakuza Princess

Yakuza Princess

2021

as ShirĂ´

6.2
Acting

In Brazil, Akemi finds out that she's the heiress to the Yakuza empire. Just after that, her destiny enters a spiral of violence and mystery, where a ...

Awake

Awake

2019

as John Doe

5.3
Acting

A man wakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is, and learns that he's wanted by the police for a committing a series of murders.

Holy Lands

Holy Lands

2019

as David

6.1
Acting

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his...

The Aspern Papers

The Aspern Papers

2019

as Morton Vint

4.4
Acting

A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.

The Aspern Papers

The Aspern Papers

2019

Executive Producer

4.4
Producing

A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.

The 12th Man

The 12th Man

2017

as Kurt Stage

7.1
Acting

After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, a Norwegian resistance fighter finds himself fleeing the Gestapo through th...

The 12th Man

The 12th Man

2017

Executive Producer

7.1
Producing

After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, a Norwegian resistance fighter finds himself fleeing the Gestapo through th...

Damascus Cover

Damascus Cover

2017

as Ari Ben-Sion / Hans Hoffmann

5.6
Acting

A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.

Damascus Cover

Damascus Cover

2017

Producer

5.6
Producing

A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.

London Town

London Town

2017

as Joe Strummer

6.1
Acting

A 14-year old boy’s life changes forever when his estranged mother introduces him to the music of The Clash in 1979 London.

Black Butterfly

Black Butterfly

2017

as Jack

6.2
Acting

Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage ...

The Shadow Effect

The Shadow Effect

2017

as Reese

5.0
Acting

A young man's life is turned upside down when his violent dreams begin to blend with reality.

Stonewall

Stonewall

2015

as Trevor

6.1
Acting

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay com...

Eternal Return

2013

as Narrator

7.3
Acting

Two lovers caught in a perpetual cycle of self sacrifice where one has to kill themselves for the other to become alive but they keep repairing each o...

Another Me

Another Me

2013

as John

5.4
Acting

A teenager finds her perfect life upended when she's stalked by a mysterious doppelganger who has her eyes set on assuming her identity.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

2013

as Valentine

6.4
Acting

In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who prote...

Belle du Seigneur

Belle du Seigneur

2012

as Solal

5.4
Acting

English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the Protestant wife...

Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs

2011

as Viscount Yarrell

6.3
Acting

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a...

6 Souls

6 Souls

2010

as David / Adam / Wesley

6.1
Acting

A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's ...

From Paris with Love

From Paris with Love

2010

as James Reece

6.3
Acting

James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to b...

A Film with Me in It

A Film with Me in It

2008

as Pierce 2

6.1
Acting

A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deat...

The Children of Huang Shi

The Children of Huang Shi

2008

as George Hogg

6.7
Acting

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the J...

August Rush

August Rush

2007

as Louis Connelly

7.4
Acting

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, h...

Mission: Impossible III

Mission: Impossible III

2006

as Declan

6.8
Acting

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, ...

Match Point

Match Point

2005

as Chris Wilton

7.4
Acting

Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris. ...

Elvis

Elvis

2005

as Elvis Presley

8.1
Acting

A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley, from his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom.

Alexander

Alexander

2004

as Cassander

5.9
Acting

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then ...

Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

2004

as George Osborne

5.8
Acting

Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a ...

Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'

2004

as Self

Acting
The Lion in Winter

The Lion in Winter

2003

as Philip

6.1
Acting

King Henry II keeps his wife Eleanor locked away in the towers because of her frequent attempts to overthrow him. With Eleanor out of the way he can h...

The Emperor's Wife

The Emperor's Wife

2003

as Chamberlain

5.5
Acting

In an undisclosed location and time, in the land of 1001 nights, the law dictates that the Emperor must take a new wife if his current Empress does no...

Octane

Octane

2003

as The Father

5.0
Acting

After a family visit, stressed businesswoman Senga Wilson is driving with her rebellious daughter, Nat, down an ominous highway in the middle of the n...

The Tesseract

The Tesseract

2003

as Sean

4.7
Acting

A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

2003

as Davey

5.4
Acting

Will Graham is a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murder...

Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham

2002

as Joe

6.3
Acting

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing ...

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons

2002

as George Amberson Minafer

5.8
Acting

The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with t...

Tangled

Tangled

2001

as Alan Hammond

5.3
Acting

A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationshi...

Prozac Nation

Prozac Nation

2001

as Noah

6.3
Acting

When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class ba...

Happy Now

Happy Now

2001

as Mark Wraith

5.4
Acting

All grown up and gunning for political power in a small North Wales community, Glen Marcus and his best mate harbour a dark secret which seems to be c...

Titus

Titus

1999

as Chiron

6.5
Acting

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.

Ride with the Devil

Ride with the Devil

1999

as Pitt Mackeson

6.4
Acting

Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us...

B. Monkey

B. Monkey

1999

as Bruno

5.8
Acting

When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire ...

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

1999

as Nic, aged 16

5.7
Acting

The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.

Velvet Goldmine

Velvet Goldmine

1998

as Brian Slade

6.9
Acting

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncov...

The Governess

The Governess

1998

as Henry Cavendish

5.9
Acting

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraw...

The Tribe

The Tribe

1998

as Adam

5.3
Acting

Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre ...

Telling Lies in America

Telling Lies in America

1997

as Kevin Boyle

5.8
Acting

A 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually slips into the payola and corruption of the entertainment...

The Maker

The Maker

1997

as Josh Minnell

5.3
Acting

Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.

The Disappearance of Finbar

The Disappearance of Finbar

1997

as Finbar Flynn

6.8
Acting

A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

1996

as Sansone (14 years)

6.5
Acting

Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.

Killer Tongue

Killer Tongue

1996

as Rudolph

5.4
Acting

A bank robber seeks refuge in a desert gas station run by nuns, awaiting her boyfriend's release. An alien meteorite transforms her into a flesh-cravi...

Michael Collins

Michael Collins

1996

as Collin's Assassin

6.9
Acting

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a compl...

A Man of No Importance

A Man of No Importance

1994

as First Young Man

6.3
Acting

Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and ...

The Rising: 1916

N/A

as P. H. Pearse

Acting

In the early 20th Century, a handsome young man leaves a small family farm and becomes the mastermind of a rebellion that changed Ireland forever. Fol...

The Paralytic

N/A

as Carpenter

Acting

A neuroscientist tortured by sleep paralysis goes to extreme lengths to test his controversial device that could either reverse paralysis or kill the ...

Eyes in the Trees

N/A

as Vince Henway

Acting

A video journalist and his film crew embark on a journey into an isolated forest, only to find their excursion turned into a fight for survival for no...

The Room Below

N/A

Acting

After losing her son to cancer, a grieving mother with a Creature in her home befriends another boy to replace her dead son, but her plans unravel whe...

Viper

N/A

as Trey 'Wolf' Johnson

Acting

Following a nuclear holocaust, an elite team of soldiers is sent into a condemned zone to destroy a bio-weapons lab.