Biography
Paul Rhys (born 19 December 1963) is a Welsh actor with an extensive career in theatre, radio, television and film. Rhys was born in Neath to working-class Catholic parents, Kathryn Ivory and Richard Charles Rhys, a labourer. He is of part-Irish descent on his mother's side. From the age of ten, he bred and trained horses, becoming a highly accomplished rider. A committed punk during his youth, Rhys sang in several bands. His first acting job was playing Liverpudlian judo expert Ralph in John G...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Men Up
2024
as Tommy Cadogan
In Morriston Hospital in Swansea in 1994 a group of ordinary middle-aged Welsh men stepped into the unknown by taking part in the world's first medica...
Widow Clicquot
2024
as Droite
After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revoluti...
Napoleon
2023
as Talleyrand
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his add...
Saltburn
2023
as Duncan
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catt...
Casanova
2015
as Comte De St Germain
Exiled from his beloved Venice, Giacomo Casanova flees to Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment in hopes of putting his reputation as a playboy behin...
Eliminate: Archie Cookson
2011
as Archie Cookson
A burnt-out British spy becomes the recipient of tapes implicating senior MI-6 officers in some light treason. Before he even knows what he has, most ...
When Harvey Met Bob
2010
as Paul McCartney
Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith set up one of the world's greatest ever concerts, Live Aid in 1984 to help ease the Ethiopian Famine.
Hellraiser: Deader
2005
as Winter
When a tough-as-nails reporter is lead to a mysterious cult and the evil Pinhead, any moment could be her last.
Murder in Rome
2005
as Cicero
Cicero, the future Consul of Rome, is just starting out as a trial lawyer in crime-ridden Rome where assassinations for political advantage and for es...
The Deal
2003
as Peter Mandelson
It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the...
Otherworld
2003
as Lord Pwyll (voice)
Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabin...
Food of Love
2002
as Richard Kennington
Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring them together but expectations must be managed by all.
From Hell
2001
as Dr. Ferral
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers...
The Innocent
2001
as David Pastorov
A happily married housewife is devastated when her husband is accused of rape by her best friend - but who is telling the truth?
Love Lies Bleeding
1999
as Jonathan
Jack the Ripper terrorizes London in 1888. The young talented journalist Catherine Winwood begins her first job. The relationship between Catherine an...
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999
as Chopin
In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the government...
King Lear
1998
as Edgar
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
The Haunting of Helen Walker
1995
as Edward Goffe
TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children h...
Nina Takes a Lover
1995
as Photographer
Laura San Giacomo stars in this sexy comedy about adultery. When Nina's (San Giacomo) husband goes out of town for several weeks on a business trip, N...
The Healer
1994
as Dr. John Lassiter
Alberto, a Colombian migrant, has the gift of healing but can't heal his own dark past. Working in London to send money home, he is tortured by dark v...
Chaplin
1992
as Sydney Chaplin
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent per...
Rebecca's Daughters
1992
as Anthony Raine
Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitma...
Becoming Colette
1991
as Chapo
French writer recalls her start as the country wife of a Paris publisher who called her erotic work his own.
Vincent & Theo
1990
as Theodore 'Theo' Van Gogh
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written b...
102 Boulevard Haussmann
1990
as Amable Massis
In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman.
Tumbledown
1988
as Hugh MacKessac
The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Batt...
The Heroes
1988
as Ivan Lyon
Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the...
Lionheart
1987
as Mayor of the Underground City
A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves ...
The Spirit
1987
A legally dead police detective decides to battle crime as a masked superhero.
Absolute Beginners
1986
as Dean Swift
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model C...
Madfabulous
N/A
Set in the late 19th century, Henry Cyril Paget is the flamboyant fifth Marquess of Anglesey whose behaviour and extravagance have modern echoes.
The Lives of Animals
N/A
as John
Elizabeth Costello is invited to Appleton College's annual literary seminar as a guest lecturer. Despite her stature as a celebrated novelist, she opt...