Ioan Gruffudd Biography

Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh actor. He first came to public attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in Titanic (1997), and then for his portrayal of Horatio Hornblower in the Hornblower series of television films (1998–2003). Subsequent roles have included Lancelot in King Arthur (2004), Mister Fantastic in Fantastic 4 (2005) and its sequel (2007), William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace (2006), and Tony Blair in W. (2008).

Ioan Gruffudd Age

Gruffudd was born on 6 October 1973 in Llwydcoed, Aberdare, Wales. He is 45 years old as of 2019.

Ioan Gruffudd Family

Gruffudd was born on 6 October 1973 in Llwydcoed, Aberdare, Wales, the eldest of three siblings. Gruffudd’s parents, Peter, and Gillian (née James) Gruffudd were both teachers. His father was headmaster at two Welsh comprehensive schools in South Wales, first at Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari (in Llanharry, Rhondda Cynon Taf) then later at Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen (in Rhydfelin). He has a brother, Alun, two years younger, and a sister, Siwan, who is seven years his junior. The Gruffudd siblings were raised in a Protestant non-conformist household.

Ioan Gruffudd Wife

Gruffudd lives with his wife, actress Alice Evans, in Los Angeles. The couple met during the production of 102 Dalmatians, while she was engaged to and living with Olivier Picasso (a grandson of Pablo Picasso), and married on 14 September 2007 in Mexico.

Ioan Gruffudd Children

The couple has two daughters, Ella Betsi Janet (born on September 6, 2009) and Elsie Marigold (born on September 13, 2013).

Ioan Gruffudd Height

Gruffuddstands at a height of 6′ 0″ tall.

Ioan Gruffudd Net Worth

Gruffudd is a Welsh actor who has an estimated net worth of $1 million.

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Ioan Gruffudd Career

Gruffudd started his acting career at the age of 13 in a Welsh television film, Austin (1986), and later moved on to the Welsh language soap opera Pobol y Cwm (People of the Valley) from 1987 to 1994. He also played football with the Pobol y Cwm football team Cwmderi FC alongside co-stars Hywel Emrys, Gwyn Elfyn and Ieuan Rhys. During this time, he was also active on stage, in-school performances, and in the 1991 Urdd Eisteddfod production of Cwlwm.

In 1992, aged 18, he began attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. However, he was only given small parts in the Academy’s productions and feeling isolated and directionless, almost dropped out several times. However, in 1995 in his final year, he was cast in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler as George (Jörgen) Tesman, the husband of Hedda, the lead character. This performance led to his being offered the lead role in the 1996 TV remake of Poldark.

After playing Oscar Wilde’s lover John Gray in 1997’s Wilde he took his first role as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the blockbuster film Titanic. He later landed the role of Horatio Hornblower in Hornblower, the Meridian production of the C. S. Forester novels (1998–2003), shown on ITV1 and A&E. He has said: “It was quite something for an unknown actor to get the lead. So I will always be grateful to Hornblower. … I would love to play this character through every stage of his life. I think it would be unique to have an actor playing him from the very early days as a midshipman, through till he’s an Admiral. So, I would love to play this character until he perishes.

In 2007, he starred in the historical drama Amazing Grace as William Wilberforce, the British abolitionist, receiving critical acclaim for the role. Gruffudd has also portrayed characters of both Marvel Comics and DC Comics, having appeared as Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) in Marvel’s Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), and provided the voice of Mister Miracle in DC’s Justice League Unlimited (2004–06).

In 2008, he appeared in the Julia Roberts-Ryan Reynolds film, Fireflies in the Garden. In 2008, he also appeared in The Secret of Moonacre. In 2009, he starred alongside Josh Brolin in W., a biopic about the life of US President George W Bush, in which Gruffudd played Tony Blair.[14] In 2011, he played the financier of a cave dive in Sanctum.

Gruffudd débuted his new male lead of Dr. Andrew Earlham, a respected surgeon and widowed father of a teenage son, on 11 September 2017, in ITV’s new 6-part thriller miniseries, Liar. Dr. Earlham’s world—personally and professionally—is torn asunder when his son’s schoolteacher, Laura Neilson (Joanne Froggatt) accuses him of raping her after their first date, the details of which she cannot remember. Liar also began airing in the US on SundanceTV on 25 September 2017.

Ioan Gruffudd Movies | Ioan Gruffudd Tv Show

2019-2008 Movies

The Professor and the Madman 2019
Buttons 2019
Keep Watching 2017
San Andreas 2015
It Cool 2014 Stuffy
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box 2013
Eddie 2013
Sanctum 2011
Horrible Bosses 2011
Foster 2011
The Kid 2010
W. 2008
The Meant to Be’s 2008
The Secret of Moonacre 2008
Fireflies in the Garden 2008

2007-2000 Movies
Stories USA 2007
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 2007
The TV Set 2006
Amazing Grace 2006
Fantastic Four 2005
King Arthur 2004
This Girl’s Life 2003
Shooters 2002
The Gathering 2002
Very Annie Mary 2001
Happy Now? 2001
Black Hawk Down 2001
Another Life 2001
102 Dalmatians 2000

Ioan Gruffudd Titanic

Ioan Gruffudd featured in Titanic a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film playing the role of Fifth Officer Harold Lowe: portraying an officer, The ship’s only officer to lead a lifeboat to retrieve survivors of the sinking from the icy waters. The film depicts Lowe rescuing Rose.

Ioan Gruffudd Forever

Ioan Gruffudd starred in Forever an American fantasy crime drama television series playing the role of Doctor Henry Morgan: portraying a New York City medical examiner who studies the dead for criminal cases and to solve the mystery of his immortality.

Ioan Gruffudd Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down is a 2001 American war film where Ioan Gruffudd featured in playing the role of LT John Beales.

Ioan Gruffudd Harrow

Harrow is an Australian television drama series where Gruffudd starred in playing the role of Dr. Daniel Harrow, portraying senior medical examiner at the Queensland Institute of Forensic Medicine (QIFM), a smart and maverick scientist who always wants to find the truth, but hides a dark secret.

Ioan Gruffudd Amazing Grace

Ioan Gruffudd starred in Amazing Grace a 2006 British-American biographical drama film playing the role of William Wilberforce.

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