Most Recent Role: Jacob Hood on Eleventh Hour
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
Birthday: 10-29-1967
Birth Name: Rufus Frederick Sewell
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
Birthday: 10-29-1967
Birth Name: Rufus Frederick Sewell
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Sporting the kind of darkly mischievous good looks that often get him cast as randy, ne'er-do-well paramours, Rufus Sewell began his film career in the early '90s and soon emerged as one of England's most promising young actors. The son of an Australian animator who died when he was ten, Sewell was born in Twickenham, Middlesex, on October 29, 1967. He trained to become an actor at London's...
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Most Recent Appearance
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Thursday 9 October 2008 on CBS
Dr. Jacob Hood, Special Science Advisor to the FBI, is called upon to investigate when multiple cases of food-related paralysis are reported in North California.
Sewell was married to Yasmin Abdallah for one year, from March 1999 to March 2000.
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Sewell's nickname is "Roof".
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Sewell has green/hazel eyes.
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Sewell is represented by Belfrage Associates.
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Sewell was involved in the 1998 film project Johnny Hit and Run Pauline, with Kate Winslet among others. The film was later canceled due to financial troubles.
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(on the character of Mark Gertler, whom he played in "Carrington".)
Rufus: I didn't get the character from reading books but more from what he did in his life; things he said, letters he wrote, the paintings he worked on. It's not a deliberate self-conscious thing, but you're just trying to get a sense of the person. I've never played anything like him before but it really appealed to me because he was so unusual and beautifully written and I could really understand him. (edit) (On the set of "A Knight's Tale")
Rufus: It's the kind of wine that steps up behind you, taps you on the
shoulder and says, "I knew your grandfather". (edit) Rufus: It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship. I don't actively look for it, I've never been like that. I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while. (edit) Rufus: My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor. (edit) Rufus: First I was seen as a brooding bloke on a horse, and then a baddie, and then a king. (edit)
Rufus: I didn't get the character from reading books but more from what he did in his life; things he said, letters he wrote, the paintings he worked on. It's not a deliberate self-conscious thing, but you're just trying to get a sense of the person. I've never played anything like him before but it really appealed to me because he was so unusual and beautifully written and I could really understand him. (edit) (On the set of "A Knight's Tale")
Rufus: It's the kind of wine that steps up behind you, taps you on the
shoulder and says, "I knew your grandfather". (edit) Rufus: It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship. I don't actively look for it, I've never been like that. I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while. (edit) Rufus: My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor. (edit) Rufus: First I was seen as a brooding bloke on a horse, and then a baddie, and then a king. (edit)
Other Appearances
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Charles II: The Power and the Passion
King Charles II |
Eleventh Hour
Jacob Hood |
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John Adams
Alexander Hamilton |
Middlemarch
Will Ladislaw |
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Charles II: The Power and the Passion
Charles II – The Power & The Passion is set in the corridors and bedrooms of power, and takes place during a pivotal moment in our history, when the conflict between monarch and state is at a... more
Eleventh Hour
This Jerry Bruckheimer ( CSI ) produced sci-fi series on CBS is an adaptation of a British thriller of the same name. The show follows Dr. Jacob Wood (Rufus Sewell), a special science adviser to... more
John Adams
U.S. history buffs won't want to miss this epic miniseries about one of America's greatest founding fathers John Adams. The mini-series is based on the 2002 book, John Adams , written by David... more Middlemarch
Middlemarch , based on the novel by George Eliot , tells the story of English society on the verge of the Industrial Revolution. The 6-episode mini-series was produced by BBC. more
Charles II – The Power & The Passion is set in the corridors and bedrooms of power, and takes place during a pivotal moment in our history, when the conflict between monarch and state is at a... more
Eleventh HourThis Jerry Bruckheimer ( CSI ) produced sci-fi series on CBS is an adaptation of a British thriller of the same name. The show follows Dr. Jacob Wood (Rufus Sewell), a special science adviser to... more
John AdamsU.S. history buffs won't want to miss this epic miniseries about one of America's greatest founding fathers John Adams. The mini-series is based on the 2002 book, John Adams , written by David... more Middlemarch
Middlemarch , based on the novel by George Eliot , tells the story of English society on the verge of the Industrial Revolution. The 6-episode mini-series was produced by BBC. more
