Rafe Spall
Rafe Spall was born in East Dulwich, England, United Kingdom on March 10th, 1983 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 41, Rafe Spall biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Rafe Joseph Spall (born 10 March 1983) is an English actor.
He is best known for his roles in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy of films, portraying Noel in Shaun of the Dead (2004), Andy Cartwright in Hot Fuzz (2007), and briefly appearing as a homebuyer in The World's End (2013). Additionally, Spall has appeared in films including A Good Year (2006), One Day (2011), Anonymous (2011), Prometheus (2012), Life of Pi (2012), The Big Short (2015), The BFG (2016), The Ritual (2017), and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018).
He played the title role of Pete Griffiths in Pete versus Life from 2010–2011, and has portrayed characters on the TV series The Shadow Line and Black Mirror.
He appears in the Men in Black spin-off film Men in Black: International (2019).
Early life
Spall was born at King's College Hospital in Camberwell, London, the second of three children of Shane (née Baker) and actor Timothy Spall. Named after the protagonist in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a role his father played in the Royal Shakespeare Company and one he would later play himself, he always had ambitions to act. When he was 14, his father was diagnosed with myeloid leukaemia and spent the next 18 months in treatment.
Rafe was overweight as a teen, which he calls a "painful" experience. Having achieved poor grades at his school, Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, he left to become an actor and joined the National Youth Theatre at 15. He failed to get into his chosen drama schools, such as RADA, at 17, but worked anyway. After being perennially cast in "fat" roles, he lost 77 lbs (35kg) at age 19, which brought more acting opportunities.
Personal life
Spall says he has always struggled with his weight, going up to 114 kg (251 lb), but said that he was given so many character parts that he attempted to slim down, losing over 32 kg (71 lb). Like his father, he is a keen supporter of Crystal Palace. He is a patron of the Actors' Centre.
In February 2008, Spall met actress Elize du Toit; they were married on 14 August 2010 and live in West Kensington, London. They have three children: a daughter Lena, born 2011, a son Rex, born November 2012 and another son born in 2015.
Career
Spall has regularly collaborated with Edgar Wright, appearing in his films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Spall was also included in Wright's segment in the 2007 Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez film Grindhouse.
Spall appeared in A Room with a View playing father and son for the first time.
Spall appeared in Anne Hathaway's romantic tragedy film One Day in 2011.
Spall portrayed Canadian author Yann Martel in the Academy Award-winning drama film Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee and starring Suraj Sharma and Irrfan Khan in 2012. The film was a critical and financial success, winning four Academy Awards and grossing over $600 million at the box office. In 2013, he appeared in I Give It a Year, a comedy about a couple's trials and tribulations in their first year of marriage.
Spall appeared in the coming-of-age drama X+Y, Asa Butterfield and Sally Hawkins, as well as the seasonal family comedy Get Santa in 2014. He appeared in the Academy Award-winning biographical comedy-drama Sons of Liberty alongside Jim Broadbent in 2015. Spall appeared in Harry Price: Ghost Hunters, ITV's version of Neil Spring's debut book, The Ghost Hunters, also this year. On December 27, the film premiered on ITV1.
In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), the fifth iteration of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park film and directed by J. Embarray helmer J. Donnell, Spall portrayed Eli Mills. A. Bayona.
Spall has been a principal actor in Apple's TV+ comedy series Trying, opposite Esther Smith and Imelda Staunton, since 2020. On May 1, 2020, the first season of the show was broadcast. On May 20, 2021, the second season premiered.
In the 2020 BBC drama The Salisbury Poisonings, he also played DS Bailey.