Matthew Rhys Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1974
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Swarthy, striking, and Welsh, actor Matthew Rhys is earning a reputation as one of his country's hottest exports. A graduate of London's prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he enrolled in 1993, Rhys got his first professional role in 1997's House of America, a psychological drama that...Read More

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The Edge of Love

Actors: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys, Cillian Murphy

Synopsis: The Jacket director John Maybury adapts playwright Sharman MacDonald's account of the true-life relationships shared between Welsh poet Dylan Thomas; his wife, Caitlin; his lifelong friend Vera Phillips; and her husband, William Killick, in this biographical drama centering on the curious incident Read More

1/1/08
Virgin Territory

Actors: Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton, Tim Roth, Chris Egan, Matthew Rhys

Synopsis: A lovely maiden with three potential suitors finds the competition to take her hand in marriage heating up to a fever pitch in an adventuresome comedy romance starring Hayden Christenson, Mischa Barton, Tim Roth, and Christopher Egan. Based on the novel by author Giovanni Boccaccio Read More

12/12/07
Fakers

Actors: Matthew Rhys, Kate Ashfield, Tom Chambers, Tony Haygarth, Art Malik

Synopsis: Saddled with a £50,000 which he has only four days to pay off before suffering grievous bodily harm, a petty London criminal attempts to carry out an ingenious art scam in director Richard Janes' spirited caper comedy. Nick Blake (Matthew Rhys) owes smooth-operating crime lord Foster Wright (Art Read More

4/27/07
Brothers & Sisters: Season 02

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin, Patricia Wettig

2007
Love and Other Disasters

Actors: Brittany Murphy, Santiago Cabrera, Matthew Rhys, Catherine Tate, Elliot Cowan

Synopsis: A hyperactive and high-fashion American transplant living in London and working for Vogue magazine does her best to enhance the lives of those around her while remaining blissfully unaware of the man who longs to profess his true love to her in an ultra-modern romantic comedy produced by Luc Besson Read More

2006
Brothers & Sisters: Season 01

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin, Patricia Wettig

2006
Columbo: Columbo Likes the Nightlife

Actors: Peter Falk, Matthew Rhys, Jennifer Sky, Douglas Roberts, Carmine Giovinazzo

Synopsis: Thirty-five years after his first television appearance in the feature-length Prescription: Murder, rumpled, raincoat-clad Lt. Columbo (who else but Peter Falk?) is still on the job in this made-for-TV movie. This time, Columbo moves about uncertainly in the Los Angeles rave scene, investigating Read More

2003
Deathwatch

Actors: Jamie Bell, Ruaidhri Conroy, Laurence Fox, Torben Liebrecht, Dean Lennox Kelly

Synopsis: Lost deep in the enemy territory of the western front during World War I, allied soldier Private Charles Shakespeare (Jamie Bell) and eight other British soldiers from the Y Company seek refuge in maze of an abadoned German trench. Winding through the twisting tunnels through piles of corpses and Read More

12/6/02
The Abduction Club

Actors: Alice Evans, Daniel Lapaine, Sophia Myles, Matthew Rhys, Liam Cunningham

Synopsis: Based on actual events that took place in Waterford, Ireland, in the late 1700s, director Stefan Schwartz's romantic comedy-drama concerns itself with a group of abductors who kidnap usually willing young women in order to persuade them to wed. Set during an era where law dictates that the eldest Read More

2002
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Stephen Fry, Michael Legge, Laura Fraser, Lulu

Synopsis: Set during the swinging disco era in decidedly unswinging Sheffield, England, this oddball comedy is both a coming-of-age story about getting funky and a supernatural mystery. Vince (Michael Legge) is a Travolta-obsessed teenager who lives with his aspiring magician brother; his randy mom, who has Read More

6/8/01
Very Annie Mary

Actors: Rachel Griffiths, Jonathan Pryce, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys

Synopsis: A Welsh woman is belatedly forced to come out of her shell when poor fortune befalls her family and friends in this kitchen-sink comedy. Annie Mary (Rachel Griffiths) is a woman in her early thirties who seems never to have finished growing up; she still lives at home with her widowed father Jack Read More

2001
The Lost World

Synopsis: Made for British television, this two-part adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's adventure-fantasy novel The Lost World adroitly combines a straightforward retelling with an abundance of slyly satirical grace notes--not to mention deliberate echoes of such earlier films as Jurassic Park, Planet of the Apes Read More

2001
Sorted

Actors: Matthew Rhys, Tim Curry, Fay Masterson, Jason Donovan

Synopsis: After his attention-getting turn in the London stage production of The Graduate, actor Matthew Rhys took the lead in Sorted, a British clubland thriller directed by Alex Jovy. Rhys plays Carl, an attorney who travels to London upon hearing of his brother Justin's sketchy drowning death in the Read More

2000
Peaches

Actors: Matthew Rhys, Sophie Okonedo

Synopsis: In this comedy, Frankie (Matthew Rhys) is a luckless loser who can't hold on to a job and isn't sure what to do around Cherry (Kelly Reilly), the woman he loves, even though she's more than interested in him (and makes no secret of it). Cherry decides to take matters into her own hands and invites Read More

2000
Small Miracles

Actors: John-Paul Macleod, Jonathan Pryce, Griff Rhys Jones, Geraldine James, Ian Bannen

Synopsis: Director Martin Duffy adapts author Rhidian Brook's popular children's book concerning British bard and Celtic shaman Taliesin in this family oriented religious drama starring Jonathan Pryce and John-Paul Macleoud, and featuring the final screen appearance of acclaimed actor Ian Bannen. Dejected Read More

2000
Titus

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, Harry J. Lennix, Colm Feore, Angus MacFadyen, James Frain

Synopsis: One of William Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, Titus Andronicus was staged in New York by award-winning theatrical director Julie Taymor in an acclaimed 1995 production, before her widely praised Broadway version of The Lion King. Taymor revisits that production for her first motion picture Read More

12/25/99
Heart

Actors: Christopher Eccleston, Saskia Reeves, Kate Hardie, Rhys Ifans, Anna Chancellor

Synopsis: A mother's love turns deadly in the wake of an organ transplant in the thriller Heart. Gary Ellis (Christopher Eccleston) is a businessman, while his wife Tess (Kate Hardie) works in television. Gary and Tess don't get along very well, largely because he's convinced she's having an affair. One Read More

1999
House of America

Actors: Steven Mackintosh, Sian Phillips, Lisa Palfrey, Matthew Rhys

Synopsis: This downbeat Welsh drama is set in a mining town that's been crushed by an economic collapse. Sid (Steven MacKintosh), Gwenny (Lisa Palfrey), and Boyo (Matthew Rhys) are three grown siblings who must care for their emotionally unstable mother (Sian Phillips) as they try to scrape together a Read More

1997