Rufus Sewell

Rufus Sewell's biography

Rufus Sewell is 55 years old television actor born at Twickenham. He was born on Sunday 29th of October 1967. He is often nicknamed as Roof. According to year of birth 1967 he belongs to Generation X. Birthday on 29th of October means he is Scorpio. Scorpio is a watery sign. These people are very intense in their thoughts. They always learn from the transformatory phase of their life.

He is citizen of United Kingdom. His primary profession is to be television actor. You can know him also as film actor, stage actor. He is recently known as translator.

Rufus Sewell's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Central School of Speech and Drama, Orleans Park School, West Thames College.

Rufus Sewell's career

His main focus is to be television actor.

Awards and competitions

Rufus Sewell's Awards

• He was awarded the 1992 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Most Promising Newcomer.
• Won the Olivier and Evening Standard Drama Best Actor awards in London, and nominated for the Best Actor Tony in New York for his role in 'Rock and Roll'.
• Won both the Olivier and Standard Drama best actor award for Rock and Roll.

Rufus Sewell's quotes

• I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.
• First I was seen as a brooding bloke on a horse, and then a baddie, and then a king.
• When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
• People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
• I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.
• I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
• I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
• Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.
• Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.
• I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.
• I'd like an omelet named after me.
• Well, thing is, after they canceled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that case, it was not my choice. After I've done something that I'm really proud of and I think changes the way I'm perceived, the immediate reaction is: nothing.
• For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.
• For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in.
• I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.
• People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.
• Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.
• It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.
• I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.
• I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
• A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.
• As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.
• The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.
• I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
• For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.
• I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.
• I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.
• I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.
• I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.
• I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.
• 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.
• Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back.
• If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.
• Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.
• Hollywood is my domestic idyll.
• I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.
• At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.
• I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.
• I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.
• My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.
• 'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous.
• I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.
• 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've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.
• I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England.
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