Rufus Sewell

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Rufus Frederik Sewell ( SYOO-uhl; born 29 October 1967) is a British actor. He has been described as a character actor and has also worked in lead roles. He has acted in film, television, and theatrical work. In film he has appeared as the knight Count Adhemar in A Knight's Tale (2001) and as Thomas Clarkson in Amazing Grace (2006). On BBC One, he starred as Charles II in the four-part film Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2003) and as Petruchio in Shakespeare ReTold's version of The Taming of The Shrew. Other film credits include The Holiday (2006), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), Judy (2019), The Father (2020), and Old (2021). In television he has appeared as Will Ladislaw in Middlemarch (1994), Alexander Hamilton in John Adams (2008), Aurelio Zen in Zen (2011), and Lord Melbourne in Victoria (2016–2017). He starred as the American Nazi John Smith in The Man in the High Castle from 2014 to 2019. Sewell plays diplomat Hal Wyler in The Diplomat (2023-present), for which he...

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