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 starred in the CBS drama Eleventh Hour which was cancelled in April 2009. On stage, he originated the role of Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the role of Jan in Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, which earned him an Olivier Award and a Tony Award nomination for the latter performance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rufus Sewell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

• Pride and Prejudice — Mr. Bennet
• 2025The Uninvited — Gerald
• 2024Scoop — Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
• 2024The Trouble with Jessica — Richard
• Kaleidoscope — Roger Salas
• The Diplomat — Hal Wyler
• The Sandman — Time
• 2021Old — Charles
• 2020The Father — Paul
• The Pale Horse — Mark Easterbrook
• 2019Judy — Sid Luft
• 2019Modern/Love in 7 Short Films — Tom
• 2016Gods of Egypt — Urshu
• 2016Rise
• Victoria — Lord Melbourne
• 2015Blinky Bill the Movie — The Cat (voice)
• 2015Killing Jesus — Caiaphas
• The Man in the High Castle — John Smith
• 2014Hercules — Autolycus
• 2014The Devil's Hand — Jacob Brown
• 2013All Things To All Men — Parker
• 2013I'll Follow You Down — Gabriel 'Gabe' Whyte
• 2013The Brunchers — Tom
• 2013The Sea — Carlo Grace
• 2012Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter — Adam
• 2012Hotel Noir — Felix
• Parade's End — Reverend Duchemin, Edith's husband
• Restless — Lucas Romer
• Zen — Aurelio Zen
• The Pillars of the Earth — Tom Builder
• 2010The Tourist — The Englishman
• 2008Downloading Nancy — Albert Stockwell
• Eleventh Hour — Jacob Hood
• John Adams — Alexander Hamilton
• 2008Vinyan — Paul Belhmer
• 2007Amazing Grace — Thomas Clarkson
• British Film Forever
• 2006Out of the Blue — English Trader
• 2006Paris Je T'aime — William (Père-Lachaise)
• 2006The Holiday — Jasper
• 2006The Illusionist — Crown Prince Leopold
• 2006Tristan & Isolde — Marke
• ShakespeaRe-Told
• 2005The Legend of Zorro — Armand
• 2005The Taming of the Shrew — Petruchio
• Charles II: The Power and The Passion — Charles II
• Helen of Troy — King Agamemnon of Mycenae
• 2003Victoria Station — The Cabbie
• 2002Extreme Ops — Ian
• 2001A Knight's Tale — Count Adhemar
• 2001Higher Love — Ross
• 2001Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature — Angus
• Arabian Nights — Ali Baba
• 2000Bless the Child — Eric Stark
• 1999In a Savage Land — Mick Carpenter
• 1998Dangerous Beauty — Marco Venier
• 1998Dark City — John Murdoch
• 1998Illuminata — Dominique
• 1998The Very Thought of You — Frank
• 1998The Woodlanders — Giles Winterbourne
• 1996Hamlet — Fortinbras
• 1996Victory — Martin Ricardo
• 1995Carrington — Mark Gertler
• 1995Cold Comfort Farm — Seth Starkadder
• 1995Henry IV — Harry Percy (Hotspur)
• 1994A Man of No Importance — Robbie Fay
• 1994Citizen Locke — Midshipman Clarke
• 1994Dirtysomething — Clive
• Middlemarch — Will Ladislaw
• 1993Dirty Weekend — Tim
• Gone to Seed — Billy Brooker
• 1992The Last Romantics — Mike Costain
• Performance — Hotspur
• 1991Twenty-One — Bobby
• Screen Two — Mike Costain, Clive, Robbie Fay
• All That I Am
• Billion Dollar Spy — Gus Hathaway
• Mr. Sunny Sky
• Queenstown

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2025Return to Dark City — Self
• 2025This Ordinary Thing — Self (voice)
• 2008Dark City: Memories of Shell Beach — Self
• 2002A Knight's Tale: Making Of — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee