Biography
Rufus Frederik Sewell (born 29 October 1967) 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 in the 2010 mini-series The Pillars of the Earth. Earlier he played the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch. In 2003, he appeared in the lead role in Charles II: The Power and The Passion. He starre...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Return to Dark City
2025
as Self
Documentary about Dark City featuring interviews with director Alex Proyas, producer Andrew Mason, production designers Patrick Tatopoulos and George ...

The Uninvited
2025
as Gerald
Rose and Sammy enjoy an idyllic life with love, a Hollywood Hills home, and a curious son. During a party, Sammy assigns unusual significance to it, w...

The Trouble with Jessica
2024
as Richard
Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. Whe...

Scoop
2024
as Prince Andrew
Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization gives an insider account of how the women of Newsnight secured Prince Andrew's infamous intervie...

Old
2021
as Charles
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing th...

The Father
2020
as Paul
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved o...

Judy
2019
as Sid Luft
Thirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of ...

Modern/Love in 7 Short Films
2019
as Tom
Seven romantic comedies from the UK, Australia, and the US explore our modern romantic entanglements in all their hilarious, mundane, sexy and nerve-w...

Gods of Egypt
2016
as Urshu
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

Rise
2016
In the near future, sentient robots are targeted for elimination after they develop emotional symmetry to humans and a revolutionary war for their sur...

Blinky Bill the Movie
2015
as The Cat (voice)
Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his...

Killing Jesus
2015
as Caiaphas
Jesus of Nazareth’s life and ministry were subject to seismic social and political events that led to his execution and changed the world forever.

The Devil's Hand
2014
as Jacob Brown
Five young Amish girls accused of being Satan's children must fight for their lives when their devout community elders insist they be "cleansed" befor...

Hercules
2014
as Autolycus
When a new enemy threatens the innocent, Hercules must lead his fearless team of warriors in a battle against overwhelming odds.

The Brunchers
2014
as Tom
A thirty something couple, concerned that they're out of touch and no longer fashionable, decide to rectify the situation by dragging themselves to th...
Dangerous Liaisons
2014
as Philip Fitzgerald Julien

I'll Follow You Down
2013
as Gabriel 'Gabe' Whyte
After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one...

The Sea
2013
as Carlo Grace
A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.

All Things To All Men
2013
as Parker
A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.

Hotel Noir
2012
as Felix
Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occu...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012
as Adam
President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

The Tourist
2010
as The Englishman
American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

Vinyan
2008
as Paul Belhmer
Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles.

Downloading Nancy
2008
as Albert Stockwell
When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting...

The Holiday
2006
as Jasper
Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes th...

Amazing Grace
2006
as Thomas Clarkson
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, bu...

Out of the Blue
2006
as English Trader
Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out Of The Blue was commissioned ...

The Illusionist
2006
as Crown Prince Leopold
With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crown prince. But Eise...

Paris Je T'aime
2006
as William (Père-Lachaise)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...

Tristan & Isolde
2006
as Marke
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.

The Taming of the Shrew
2005
as Tim Agnew
A young harridan MP marries a title in order to advance towards her goal of becoming party leader.

The Legend of Zorro
2005
as Armand
Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega...

Victoria Station
2003
as The Cabbie
A controller in a London cab office looks for a driver to pick up a fare from Victoria Station. The driver who answers has never heard of Victoria Sta...

Extreme Ops
2002
as Ian
While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.

A Knight's Tale: Making Of
2002
as Self
A closer look into the filmmaking of Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale".

Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature
2001
as Angus
Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and heads...

A Knight's Tale
2001
as Count Adhemar
William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, Will...

Higher Love
2001
as Ross
Ross, who lives with his eccentric Uncle Cullen, is desperately trying to become a successful businessman. When he attempts to sell the family wine co...

Bless the Child
2000
as Eric Stark
When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed f...

In a Savage Land
1999
as Mick Carpenter
Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks ou...

Illuminata
1998
as Dominique
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Ill...

The Very Thought of You
1998
as Frank
Laurence recounts to his neighbour how his life long friendship with Frank and Daniel has been overturned in just three days by their each independent...

Dark City
1998
as John Murdoch
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic ...

Dangerous Beauty
1998
as Marco Venier
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of que...

The Woodlanders
1998
as Giles Winterbourne
The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishi...

Hamlet
1996
as Fortinbras
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Victory
1996
as Martin Ricardo
Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, He...
Henry IV
1995
as Harry Percy (Hotspur)
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed '...

Carrington
1995
as Mark Gertler
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by...

Cold Comfort Farm
1995
as Seth Starkadder
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough rela...

A Man of No Importance
1994
as Robbie Fay
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 ...
Citizen Locke
1994
as Midshipman Clarke
Story of John Locke...

Dirtysomething
1994
as Clive
Dirtysomething centres around young lovers Becca and Dog, an older fellow traveller, sage Larry, and is about the pitfalls of giving up the alternativ...

Dirty Weekend
1993
as Tim
Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Final...

The Last Romantics
1992
as Mike Costain
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.

Twenty-one
1991
as Bobby
Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her drug...
All That I Am
N/A
A heroic true story about four German-Jewish literati-turned-anti-Nazi activists who are forced to flee to London following the rise of Adolf Hitler’s...
Mr. Sunny Sky
N/A
Leonard Moore is a once chart-topping pop star now lounge singer at a mid-budget Canary Island hotel. One night he meets Shirley, another lost soul wi...

Billion Dollar Spy
N/A
as Gus Hathaway
Set against the high-stakes backdrop of the late Cold War, Adolf Tolkachev, an ordinary man who risks everything to pass thousands of pages of top-sec...