Rhys Ifans

At 56 years old, Rhys Ifans has this physical status:

Career

Hamlet at Theatr Clwyd, A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Regent's Park Theatre, and Under Milk Wood and Volpone at the National Theatre were among Ifans' early stage performances. In 2003, he appeared at the Donmar Warehouse as part of the Accidental Death of an Anarchist. In 2006, he returned to Soho in Michael Grandage's production Don Juan. Ifans appeared in Deborah Warner's production of King Lear in 2016, they appeared as Fools alongside Glenda Jackson. In Matthew Warchus' production of A Christmas Carol (adapted by Jack Thorne), he returned to The Old Vic to play King Berenger and in Patrick Marber's latest interpretation of Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King. Ifans was given the role of Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin's To Kill A Mockingbird to open in London's Gielgud Theatre on May 21, 2020. The play was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it was rescheduled for May 2021. Due to scheduling conflicts, Atticus Finch was later assigned to Rafe Spall.

Before embarking on his film career, Ifans appeared on many Welsh-language television shows, including the comedy show Pobol y Chyff, as well as appearing at the National Theatre, London, and Manchester's Royal Exchange. In 1990, he introduced Sdwnsh (Welsh for "Mash"), an anarchic children's quiz show. On Welsh-language television station S4C, a total of 31 fifteen minutes programs were broadcast.

He narrated the children's animated film Sali Mali for S4C in 2000. In 2004, Ifans' appearance in the television film Not Only But Always received him the BAFTA Best Actor award at the 2005 British Academy Television Awards.

Ifans appeared on stage for the rock band Oasis' single "The Importance of Being Idle" in 2005 (where he mimed to Noel Gallagher's vocals), for which he received their Certificate of the Year at the 2006 NME Awards. He has also appeared in "God!" music videos. Super Furry Animals' "Mulder and Scully" by Catatonia, "Mulder and Scully," and "Mama Told Me Not to Come" by Tom Jones with Stereophonics "Me Magic" and "Hometown Unicorn" by Show Me Magic" and "Mimicini" by Show Me Magic.

In 2008, he appeared in "Six Days One June," one of three episodes of the television series The Last Word Monologues, written by Hugo Blick and broadcast on BBC Two. He played a lonely Welsh farmer struggling to escape from a domineering mother.

Ifans portrayed hard-nosed American CIA case officer Hector DeJean in the U.S. pay-cable Epix network espionage thriller drama film Berlin Station, which was shot on location in Berlin from 2016 to 2019.

In the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, which premiered on August 21, 2022, Ifans plays Otto Hightower.

Ifans gained international recognition in his role as Jeremy Lewis in the Swansea-based film Twin Town (1997) alongside his brother Llr. Ifans, it was said, did not wash himself or brush his teeth while preparing for the position. In Little Nicky, he played Adrian, the pompous eldest brother. Eyeball Paul in Kevin & Perry Go Large (1999), Nigel in The Replacements (2001), Iki in The 51st State (2001), William Dobbin in Vanity Fair (2004), and Vladis Grutas in Hannibal Rising (2006). Jed Parry appeared in Ian McEwan's Enduring Love (2004) and was the lead role in Danny Deckchair (2004) as Danny Morgan.

Ifans revealed in March 2009 that he would appear in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010). He played Xenophillius Lovegood, editor of the mysterious Luna Lovegood journal. He revealed in the same interview that he would play the title role in Mr. Nice, based on Howard Marks' life. In Mr. Nobody, he played Nemo Nobody's father. In Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, he appeared as a villain.

Ifans would appear in the Spider-Man reboot film The Amazing Spider-Man, according to Associated Press on October 11, 2010. A few days later, the Curt Connors / Lizard villain was revealed, and the film was released in July 2012. Ifans appeared in She's Funny That Way, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, in 2015.

Ifans appeared in Steven Bernstein's Last Call, which was released theatrically in the United States, on November 25, 2020. It's a bizarre biopic that recreates Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' life by flashbacks from the 1950s drinking binge at the White Horse Tavern in New York City, which tragically ended in 1959. Ifans plays Thomas alongside John Malkovich, Rodrigo Santoro, Romola Garai, Zosia Mamet, and Tony Hale in the film.

Ifans would reprise his role as Lizard from "The Amazing Spider-Man" in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home, which was announced on November 16, 2021, through the film's official trailer. Ifans was not on stage and only gave his voice for the character created by digital means later, with his human appearance at the end of the film being taken from an archived footage from The Amazing Spider-Man.

Ifans appeared in the spy film The King's Man, which was released in December 2021, as Grigori Rasputin.

Before they released any records, Ifans was the lead vocalist of the rock band Super Furry Animals for a short time.

Ifans has performed with the psychedelic rock band The Peth ("peth" is Welsh for "thing"), which also appeared on television shows in south Wales and London in the fall of 2008. At a concert in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium in 2009, the band performed Oasis.

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