Despite the controversy, Sewell continues to staunchly support the film. At the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, audiences walked out of the screening, and as of summer 2008, any theatrical release was still uncertain. He co-starred in the controversial film Downloading Nancy, which was released on 5 June 2009. The series' cast included Ian McDiarmid, Helen McCrory, Rupert Graves and Shirley Henderson and spanned the life of the king from his last days in exile to his death. He received critical praise for his portrayal of "merry monarch" Charles II in the BBC's Charles II: The Power and The Passion. In 2008, Sewell appeared in the HBO miniseries John Adams as Alexander Hamilton. "With me, it's like okay, how can I make this upper class bad guy in the 19th century different and interesting?" He spoke of his unhappiness about this, saying that " don't want to play a baddie again." "Everyone has their thing they have to get around", notes Sewell. Sewell is known for his villainous roles, such as those in A Knight's Tale, The Legend of Zorro, Bless the Child, Helen of Troy and The Illusionist. Amazing Grace deals with William Wilberforce's political fight to abolish slavery in Britain, with Sewell playing Wilberforce's co-campaigner Thomas Clarkson.
His film work includes 1995's Cold Comfort Farm, directed by John Schlesinger, the lead role of John Murdoch in the science fiction film Dark City in 1998, Amazing Grace, The Illusionist and Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy The Holiday.
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Also in 1993 Sewell starred in the BBC serial of George Eliot's Middlemarch and on stage in Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia at The Royal National Theatre (Lyttelton). Winner chose him after seeing him in a play at the Criterion Theatre. His breakthrough year was in 1993, in which he starred as the nasty Tim in Michael Winner's film Dirty Weekend. CareerĪfter graduating, Sewell was set up with an agent by Judi Dench who had directed him in a play while at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He later enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Sewell was educated at Orleans Park School, a state comprehensive school in Twickenham, which he left in 1984, followed by West Thames College, where a drama teacher sent him to audition for drama school. Sewell has said that he was a difficult teenager. His parents divorced when Sewell was five, and his mother worked to support her two sons. His father worked on the " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" segment of animation for The Beatles' Yellow Submarine film.
Sewell was born in Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in South West London, the son of William, an Australian animator, and Jo Sewell, a Welsh artist and waitress. 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 the latter earned him an Olivier Award and a Tony Award nomination. He starred in the CBS drama Eleventh Hour which was cancelled in April 2009. In 2003, he appeared in the lead role in Charles II: The Power and The Passion.
In 1993 he played the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC's adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch.
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On television, he starred as an Italian detective in the BBC's television series Zen (2011) and also appeared in the mini-series The Pillars of the Earth (2010). In film, he has appeared in Kenneth Branagh's rendition of Hamlet (1996) playing Fortinbras, The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, The Illusionist, Tristan and Isolde, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. Rufus Frederik Sewell ( / ˈ s uː əl/ born 29 October 1967) is an English actor.
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