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Sewell hit the mainstream radar in 1994 with a featured role in the British TV adaptation of 'Middlemarch,' a miniseries based on George Eliot's 1830s-set drama which was wildly popular in the U.K. The following year, when Sewell originated the role of Byronic tutor Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard's cerebral 'Arcadia,' he was honored with a nomination for an Olivier Award. He trained for three years and began making a name for himself on regional stages in fare such as the historic epic 'Royal Hunt of the Sun' and Shakespeare's 'As You Like It.' He made inroads in film and television with a feature acting debut as a Scottish junkie opposite Patsy Kensit in 'Twenty-One' (1991) and a featured part in the British TV production 'The Last Romantics' (1991).ДЇor his entrГ©e to London's West End in 1992, he played a Czech hustler involved with an older woman (Jane Asher) in 'Making It Better,' earning a Most Promising Newcomer Award from the London Critic's Circle for his stage work. But with the encouragement of a school drama teacher, the shiftless teen applied to London's Central School of Speech and Drama, where he finally found his passion and focus. By his own account Sewell was 'quite rebellious at school, under threat of constant expulsion, and his activities included the requisite drinking and drug use as well as shoplifting. When he was ten his father passed away unexpectedly. Sewell was raised by his mother after his parents' divorce when he was five. His mother, Jo, was a Welsh artist and his Australian father, William, was an illustrator and animator known for his work on The Beatle's animated feature 'Yellow Submarine' (1968). The series' demise would, at least temporarily, return Sewell to period dramas, although the charismatic actor would manage to keep at least one foot firmly planted in the modern day for his many projects to come.

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Eventually the actor's protestations led him to prove his versatility in the critically-acclaimed Tom Stoppard play 'Rock 'n' Roll' and the American television series 'Eleventh Hour' (CBS, 2008-09), where he proved a very suitable choice to play a handsome criminal investigator whose preferred method of transportation was a car and who was never called upon to engage in a sword fight. While Sewell successfully transitioned to American productions, he remained typecast in period pieces as villainous rulers, brooding noblemen and romantic leads. From there, the actor was tapped to ride many a horse and deliver many a velvet-clad smoldering look in a string of well-received films including 'A Knight's Tale' (2001) and 'The Illusionist' (2006). A mainstay in British costume dramas and historic biopics, actor Rufus Sewell was active on London stages before landing his screen breakthrough in the British television adaptation of George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' in 1995.