Acting

Paul Rhys

Born December 19, 1963 · Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, UK (age 62)

Paul Rhys (born 19 December 1963) is a Welsh actor with an extensive career in theatre, radio, television and film. Rhys was born in Neath to working-class Catholic parents, Kathryn Ivory and Richard Charles Rhys, a labourer. He is of part-Irish descent on his mother's side. From the age of ten, he bred and trained horses, becoming a highly accomplished rider. A committed punk during his youth, R…

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“Wuthering Heights”

“Wuthering Heights” · 2026

“Wuthering Heights”

MovieRomanceDrama

Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.

Napoleon

Napoleon · 2023

MovieHistoryWar

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

Saltburn

Saltburn · 2023

MovieDramaComedy

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

From Hell

From Hell · 2001

MovieHorrorMystery

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

Chaplin

Chaplin · 1992

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

Hellraiser: Deader

Hellraiser: Deader · 2005

Hellraiser: Deader

MovieHorrorThriller

When a tough-as-nails reporter is lead to a mysterious cult and the evil Pinhead, any moment could be her last.

Widow Clicquot

Widow Clicquot · 2024

After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revolutionizing the champagne industry, establishing her as one of the world's first great businesswomen.

Absolute Beginners

Absolute Beginners · 1986

Absolute Beginners

MovieDramaMusic

A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...

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“Wuthering Heights”

“Wuthering Heights” · 2026

“Wuthering Heights”

MovieRomanceDrama

Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.

Heathcliff's Father

Napoleon

Napoleon · 2023

MovieHistoryWar

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

Talleyrand

Saltburn

Saltburn · 2023

MovieDramaComedy

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

Duncan

From Hell

From Hell · 2001

MovieHorrorMystery

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

Dr. Ferral

Chaplin

Chaplin · 1992

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

Sydney Chaplin

Hellraiser: Deader

Hellraiser: Deader · 2005

Hellraiser: Deader

MovieHorrorThriller

When a tough-as-nails reporter is lead to a mysterious cult and the evil Pinhead, any moment could be her last.

Winter

Widow Clicquot

Widow Clicquot · 2024

After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revolutionizing the champagne industry, establishing her as one of the world's first great businesswomen.

Droite

Absolute Beginners

Absolute Beginners · 1986

Absolute Beginners

MovieDramaMusic

A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...

Dean Swift

Madfabulous

Madfabulous · 2026

MovieHistoryComedy

When the flamboyant Henry Paget arrives in 1890s North Wales to claim his aristocratic inheritance, his theatrical flair and defiant eccentricities send shockwaves through the upper-class elite, much to the amusement of the local townspeople. Alongside his spirited cousin, Lily, and loyal butler, Gelert, Henry tries to carve out his own identity as the Fifth Marquess, navigating suffocating traditions, scheming relatives, and the long shadow cast by his estranged father.

Lord Penrhyn

Men Up

MovieDramaHistory

In Morriston Hospital in Swansea in 1994 a group of ordinary middle-aged Welsh men stepped into the unknown by taking part in the world's first medical trials for the drug that became Viagra.

Tommy Cadogan

Food of Love

Food of Love · 2002

MovieDramaRomance

Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring them together but expectations must be managed by all.

Richard Kennington

Casanova

Casanova · 2015

MovieDramaTV Movie

Exiled from his beloved Venice, Giacomo Casanova flees to Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment in hopes of putting his reputation as a playboy behind him. But old habits die hard, and temptation is everywhere as Casanova finds a wealth of new opportunity and trouble.

Comte De St Germain

Lionheart

Lionheart · 1987

MovieAdventureDrama

A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. It is Robert Narra's sworn duty to protect the children and lead them to safety.

Mayor of the Underground City

Becoming Colette

Becoming Colette · 1991

Becoming Colette

MovieDramaHistory

French writer recalls her start as the country wife of a Paris publisher who called her erotic work his own.

Chapo

When Harvey Met Bob

When Harvey Met Bob · 2010

When Harvey Met Bob

MovieDramaTV Movie

Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith set up one of the world's greatest ever concerts, Live Aid in 1984 to help ease the Ethiopian Famine.

Paul McCartney

Love Lies Bleeding

Love Lies Bleeding · 1999

Love Lies Bleeding

Jack the Ripper terrorizes London in 1888. The young talented journalist Catherine Winwood begins her first job. The relationship between Catherine and the surgeon Jonathan Stevens threatens to shatter, as her fiancé may be involved in the gruesome murderer of young prostitutes in the Whitechapel district. But Inspector Frederick Abberline arrests another suspected surgeon ..

Jonathan

Rebecca's Daughters

Rebecca's Daughters · 1992

Rebecca's Daughters

MovieComedyDrama

Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.

Anthony Raine

Vincent & Theo

Vincent & Theo · 1990

The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.

Theodore 'Theo' Van Gogh

The Deal

The Deal · 2003

MovieComedyDrama

It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the leadership campaign about to start the clear choice appears to be Gordon Brown, a stanch Scotsman. However Tony Blair is also beginning to appear more likely as he will appeal to Southern voters who would be turned off by Brown. Blair rings Brown to arrange a meeting to discuss which will go for the job. The film flashbacks to the start of their relationship, sharing an office in Westminster on their first seats.

Peter Mandelson

The Spirit

The Spirit · 1987

MovieActionTV Movie

A legally dead police detective decides to battle crime as a masked superhero.

Nina Takes a Lover

Nina Takes a Lover · 1995

Nina Takes a Lover

MovieDramaRomance

When Nina's husband goes out of town for several weeks on a business trip, Nina hooks up with a photographer. Told from a reporter's point of view, his interviews with Nina and the photographer provide comic insights.

Photographer

The Haunting of Helen Walker

The Haunting of Helen Walker · 1995

The Haunting of Helen Walker

MovieHorrorThriller

A live-in nanny discovers two children haunted by the spirits and deeds of their former care givers.

Edward Goffe

Tumbledown

Tumbledown · 1988

MovieTV MovieDrama

The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper and left paralyzed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.

Hugh MacKessac

102 Boulevard Haussmann

102 Boulevard Haussmann · 1990

102 Boulevard Haussmann

MovieDramaTV Movie

In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman.

Amable Massis

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot · 1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot

SeriesCrimeDrama

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Robin Upward

Murdoch Mysteries

Murdoch Mysteries · 2008

Murdoch Mysteries

SeriesMysteryDrama

A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.

Dr. Llewllyn Francis

Spooks

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

Alexis Meynell

New Tricks

New Tricks · 2004

SeriesDramaComedy

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

Sebastian Carter

The Sandman

The Sandman · 2022

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power.

Hippogriff (voice)

Performance

Performance · 1991

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Edgar

A Discovery of Witches

A Discovery of Witches · 2018

A Discovery of Witches

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.

Andrew Hubbard

Victoria

Victoria · 2016

The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.

Sir John Conroy

Luther

SeriesCrimeDrama

A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

Lucien Burgess

Being Human

Being Human · 2009

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.

Ivan

Timewatch

Timewatch · 1982

SeriesDocumentary

Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.

Cicero

Moving On

Moving On · 2009

Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.

Andy

Borgia

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

The name Borgia stands for betrayal, intrigue and corruption in the Vatican, which was the center of the world during the Renaissance.

Kavanagh Q.C.

Kavanagh Q.C. · 1995

SeriesCrimeDrama

John Thaw dons the silks as barrister James Kavanagh Q.C., one of the most highly respected criminal advocates in London, commanding admiration from colleagues and opponents alike. However, all this has come at a price as his dedication to work has taken its toll on his private life… Going beyond traditional courtroom dramas, “Kavanagh Q.C.” uncovers the pressures of legal battles and the problems of defining the truth, providing a compelling representation of the euphoric ups and costly downs of success and failure in the legal world.

Sam Wicks

Lore

SeriesMysteryDrama

This anthology series brings to life Aaron Mahnke's titular podcast and uncovers the real-life events that spawn our darkest nightmares. Blending reenactments, animation, archive and narration, Lore reveals how our horror legends – such as vampires, werewolves and body snatchers – are rooted in truth.

Philip Smith

Great Expectations

Great Expectations · 2011

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Compeyson

Murder in Mind

Murder in Mind · 2001

SeriesDramaCrime

A series of self-contained stories, each recounting a murder scene as seen from the chilling viewpoint of the killer. Explore the inner workings of a criminal's brain, revealing humanity at its darkest.

Matthew Hopkins

Tip Toe

Tip Toe · 2026

An ordinary Manchester suburb becomes a minefield of lies and violence when Leo gives neighbour Clive his spare key.

Melba

Rellik

SeriesCrimeDrama

A serial killer thriller told in reverse, unravelling the truth behind a series of murders as DCI Gabriel Markham hunts down a brutal killer.

Patrick Barker

A Dance to the Music of Time

A Dance to the Music of Time · 1997

A Dance to the Music of Time

SeriesComedyDrama

A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.

Charles Stringham

The Cazalets

The Cazalets · 2001

The Cazalets is a 2001 television drama series about the life of a large privileged family in the years 1937 to 1947. Most of the action takes place in London, and at the family's large estate in Sussex. The drama was based on the novels of Elizabeth Jane Howard, and adapted by the screenwriter Douglas Livingstone. The series was originally produced by Cinema Verity for BBC One and is available on DVD.

Rupert Cazalet

The Way

The Way · 2024

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

Strikes in Port Talbot spark a revolution – and a family of fugitives go on the run. Facing impossible choices, what would you do?

Akela

Chillers

Chillers · 1990

SeriesMysteryDrama

A 1990 horror anthology series, with host Anthony Perkins presenting and screening tales based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories that display a sinister atmosphere, and delve into the darkest depths of human nature.

Adam Marshall

The Assets

The Assets · 2014

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille vowed to find the mole that would turn out to be the most notorious traitor in US history, Aldrich Ames. Sandy is in a race against time to save the Soviet intelligence officers from being caught and killed. Living her own double life at home, this beautiful wife and mother vowed to stop at nothing until she uncovered the truth.

Aldrich Ames