Rufus Sewell

Q: Has Rufus Sewell won any major awards?

Rufus Sewell has not won an Academy Award but has received several nominations, including a BAFTA nomination for his work in 'The Eleventh Hour'.

Q: What was Rufus Sewell's first film?

Rufus Sewell made his film debut in 'The Woodlanders' in 1997. His performance helped to establish his career in the film industry.

Q: What is Rufus Sewell's estimated net worth?

As of now, Rufus Sewell's estimated net worth is around $5 million, primarily from his extensive work in film and television.

Q: What television shows has Rufus Sewell appeared in?

Rufus Sewell has appeared in various television shows, including 'The Pillars of the Earth', 'Victoria', and 'The Man in the High Castle', showcasing his range in different genres.

Q: Is Rufus Sewell involved in theatre?

Yes, Rufus Sewell has a strong background in theatre, having performed in numerous stage productions, including 'Rock 'n' Roll' and 'Hamlet', earning praise for his live performances.

Q: What is a defining characteristic of Rufus Sewell's acting style?

Rufus Sewell is known for his intense performances and ability to portray complex characters. His distinctive voice adds depth to his roles, making him a compelling presence on screen.

Q: What role did Rufus Sewell play in 'Victoria'?

In the series 'Victoria', Rufus Sewell played Lord Melbourne, a close advisor to Queen Victoria. His performance was noted for its charm and depth, contributing to the show's success.

Known for

A Knight’s Tale (2001)

IMDb 7 / 10

2001 / Action, Adventure / 132 min

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't...

Old (2021)

2021 / Horror, Mystery / 108mins

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly...

Name

Rufus Sewell

Height

6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Born

18 October 1967, Twickenham, London, England

Spouses

Amy Gardner (2011–present)

Children

1 child, a son named William

Parents

Roger Sewell, Patricia Sewell

Estimated Net Worth

$5 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie This Ordinary Thing A film about non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust.	Self (voice)	Not rated
2025	Movie Return to Dark City Documentary about Dark City featuring interviews with director Alex Proyas, producer Andrew Mason, production designers Patrick Tatopoulos and George Liddle,...	Self	Not rated
2025	Movie The Uninvited Rose and Sammy enjoy an idyllic life with love, a Hollywood Hills home, and a curious son. During a party,...	Gerald	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2024	Movie The Trouble with Jessica Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer...	Richard	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2024	Movie Scoop Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization gives an insider account of how the women of Newsnight secured Prince Andrew's...	Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2023	TV The Diplomat Amid an international crisis, a US diplomat contends with her high-profile job as ambassador to the UK and her strained...	Hal Wyler	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2023	TV Kaleidoscope A master thief and his crew attempt an epic and elaborate heist worth $7 billion dollars — but betrayal, greed...	Roger Salas	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2022	TV The Sandman After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what...	Time	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2021	Movie Old A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing...	Charles	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2020	Movie The Father A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his...	Paul	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2020	TV The Pale Horse After a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins...	Mark Easterbrook	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2019	Movie Judy Thirty years after starring in 'The Wizard of Oz', beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform...	Sid Luft	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2019	Movie Modern/Love in 7 Short Films Seven romantic comedies from the UK, Australia, and the US explore our modern romantic entanglements in all their hilarious, mundane,...	Tom	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2016	TV Victoria The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism...	Lord Melbourne	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2016	Movie Gods of Egypt A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.	Urshu	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2016	Movie Rise In the near future, sentient robots are targeted for elimination after they develop emotional symmetry to humans and a revolutionary...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2015	Movie Blinky Bill the Movie Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little...	The Cat (voice)	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2015	Movie Killing Jesus Jesus of Nazareth’s life and ministry were subject to seismic social and political events that led to his execution and...	Caiaphas	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2015	TV The Man in the High Castle Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United...	John Smith	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2014	Movie The Devil's Hand Five young Amish girls accused of being Satan's children must fight for their lives when their devout community elders insist...	Jacob Brown	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2014	Movie Hercules When a new enemy threatens the innocent, Hercules must lead his fearless team of warriors in a battle against overwhelming...	Autolycus	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2013	Movie The Brunchers A couple tries to tackle the London brunch scene, but getting a seat is harder than anticipated.	Tom	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2013	Movie I'll Follow You Down After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to...	Gabriel 'Gabe' Whyte	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2013	Movie The Sea A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of...	Carlo Grace	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2013	Movie All Things To All Men A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.	Parker	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2012	TV Restless A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War...	Lucas Romer	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2012	Movie Hotel Noir Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course...	Felix	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2012	TV Parade's End The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in...	Reverend Duchemin, Edith's husband	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2012	Movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.	Adam	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2011	TV Zen Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for...	Aurelio Zen	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2010	Movie The Tourist American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more...	The Englishman	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2010	TV The Pillars of the Earth A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a...	Tom Builder	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2008	TV Eleventh Hour Dr. Jacob Hood is a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities....	Dr. Jacob Hood	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2008	Movie Vinyan Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a...	Paul Belhmer	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2008	Movie Dark City: Memories of Shell Beach Beginning with an introduction to the creation of the story, this featurette delves into all facets of the production of...	Self	Not rated
2008	TV John Adams Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting...	Alexander Hamilton	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2008	Movie Downloading Nancy When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy,...	Albert Stockwell	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2007	TV British Film Forever Running for seven weeks from July 2007, each week focused on a different genre, examining British film by genre. Presented...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2006	Movie The Holiday Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a...	Jasper	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2006	Movie Amazing Grace The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce...	Thomas Clarkson	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2006	Movie Out of the Blue Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre,...	English Trader	Not rated
2006	Movie The Illusionist With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from...	Crown Prince Leopold	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2006	Movie Paris Je T'aime Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this...	William (Père-Lachaise)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2006	Movie Tristan & Isolde An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for...	Marke	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2005	Movie The Taming of the Shrew A young harridan MP marries a title in order to advance towards her goal of becoming party leader.	Petruchio	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2005	TV ShakespeaRe-Told Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.	Unknown character	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2005	Movie The Legend of Zorro Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro...	Armand	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2003	TV Charles II: The Power and The Passion Charles II: The Power and the Passion is a four-part television miniseries, broadcast on BBC One from 16 November to...	Charles II	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2003	Movie Victoria Station A controller in a London cab office looks for a driver to pick up a fare from Victoria Station. The...	The Cabbie	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2003	TV Helen of Troy Paris of Troy goes to Sparta on a diplomatic mission and falls in love with Helen, the wife of King...	King Agamemnon of Mycenae	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2003	Movie Helen of Troy	King Agamemnon of Mycenae	Not rated
2002	Movie Extreme Ops While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.	Ian	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2002	Movie A Knight's Tale: Making Of A closer look into the filmmaking of Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale".	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2001	Movie Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As...	Angus	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2001	Movie A Knight's Tale William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a...	Count Adhemar	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2001	Movie Higher Love Ross, who lives with his eccentric Uncle Cullen, is desperately trying to become a successful businessman. When he attempts to...	Ross	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2000	Movie Bless the Child When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter...	Eric Stark	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2000	TV Arabian Nights Targeted for assassination by his first wife and his evil brother, a young sultan must marry by the next full...	Ali Baba	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1999	Movie In a Savage Land Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World...	Mick Carpenter	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1998	Movie Illuminata It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of...	Dominique	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1998	Movie The Very Thought of You Laurence recounts to his neighbour how his life long friendship with Frank and Daniel has been overturned in just three...	Frank	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1998	Movie Dark City A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no...	John Murdoch	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1998	Movie Dangerous Beauty Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is...	Marco Venier	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1998	Movie The Woodlanders The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace,...	Giles Winterbourne	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1996	Movie Hamlet Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle....	Fortinbras	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1996	Movie Victory Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa...	Martin Ricardo	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1995	Movie Henry IV Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland...	Harry Percy (Hotspur)	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1995	Movie Carrington Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he...	Mark Gertler	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1995	Movie Cold Comfort Farm In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds...	Seth Starkadder	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1994	Movie A Man of No Importance Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet...	Robbie Fay	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1994	Movie Citizen Locke Story of John Locke...	Midshipman Clarke	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1994	Movie Dirtysomething Dirtysomething centres around young lovers Becca and Dog, an older fellow traveller, sage Larry, and is about the pitfalls of...	Clive	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1994	TV Middlemarch 19th century Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution brings both the promise and fear of change. In the provincial town of...	Will Ladislaw	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1993	Movie Dirty Weekend Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed...	Tim	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1992	TV Gone to Seed Gone to Seed is a British comedy-drama series created by Tony Grounds, a standalone spin-off to his earlier Gone to...	Billy Brooker	TMDB 3.3 / 10
1992	Movie The Last Romantics A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at...	Mike Costain	Not rated
1991	TV Performance An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.	Hotspur	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1991	Movie Twenty-One Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her...	Bobby	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1985	TV Screen Two Series of single made-for-television dramas.	Mike Costain	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1985	TV Screen Two Series of single made-for-television dramas.	Clive	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1985	TV Screen Two Series of single made-for-television dramas.	Robbie Fay	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1956	TV Tony Awards The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway...	Self - Nominee	Not rated
TBA	TV Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet is an unmarried woman and the second of five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet from Hertfordshire, near...	Mr Bennet	Not rated
TBA	Movie Billion Dollar Spy Set against the high-stakes backdrop of the late Cold War, Adolf Tolkachev, an ordinary man who risks everything to pass...	Gus Hathaway	Not rated
TBA	Movie All That I Am A heroic true story about four German-Jewish literati-turned-anti-Nazi activists who are forced to flee to London following the rise of...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Mr. Sunny Sky Leonard Moore is a once chart-topping pop star now lounge singer at a mid-budget Canary Island hotel. One night he...	Unknown character	Not rated

This Ordinary Thing

2025

Return to Dark City

2025

The Uninvited

2025 / TMDB 5.7

The Trouble with Jessica

2024 / TMDB 6.0

Scoop

2024 / TMDB 6.3

Old

2021 / TMDB 6.3

See All

Best Historical TV Shows to Watch

Discover the best historical TV shows to watch. We highlight gripping tales, royal dramas & legendary stories available now.

Best Action Movies Streaming Now

Discover the best action movies now. Find top hits, explosive adventures, and must-watch blockbusters for your next movie night!

Got a question about Rufus Sewell?

What are some of Rufus Sewell's most famous films?

Rufus Sewell is well-known for his roles in films such as 'Dark City', 'The Illusionist', and 'A Knight's Tale'. His performances have garnered critical acclaim and a loyal fan base.

Has Rufus Sewell won any major awards?

What was Rufus Sewell's first film?

What is Rufus Sewell's estimated net worth?

What television shows has Rufus Sewell appeared in?

Is Rufus Sewell involved in theatre?

What is a defining characteristic of Rufus Sewell's acting style?

What role did Rufus Sewell play in 'Victoria'?

Known for

A Knight’s Tale (2001)

Old (2021)

Personal details

Credits

Latest Release