Matthew Rhys Biography

Fast Facts

• First language is Welsh
• Caught acting bug playing Elvis Presley in a high school musical
• Dropped surname, Evans, because there was already a Matthew Evans registered with the British Actors Equity Association
• Shared an apartment with childhood friend and fellow Cardiff native Ioan Gruffudd for more than a decade, and was in Gruffudd's wedding party at his 2007 marriage to Alice Evans
• Breakthrough role was on stage in London's West End in a 2000 production of The Graduate, starring as Benjamin opposite Kathleen Turner's Mrs
• Robinson
• Provided the voice of Spiderman in a Welsh translation of the classic cartoon in 2006
• Released the photographic travel memoir Patagonia: Crossing the Plain in 2011
• Is a patron, along with Ioan Gruffudd, for the spinal-injury charity Trust PA