Matthew Rhys
{{short description|Welsh actor (born 1974)}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Matthew Rhys
| image = Matthew Rhys.jpg
| caption = Rhys in 2011
| birth_name = Matthew Rhys Evans
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1974|11|8}}
| birth_place = Cardiff, Wales
| education = Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1997–present
| partner = Keri Russell (2014-present){{cite web | url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/matthew-rhys-interview-towards-zero-56j9nblhw | title=Matthew Rhys: My secret relationship was exposed by a burglary | date=March 10, 2025 }}
| children = 1
}}
Matthew Rhys Evans ({{IPAc-en|r|iː|s}} {{respell|REESS}}; born 8 November 1974{{Cite tweet |user=MatthewRhys |number=1060661848280752128 |date=8 November 2018 |title=Thank you for the messages...diolch am y negeseuon. 'My Birthday began with the water birds.....'}}) is a Welsh actor. He gained recognition for playing Kevin Walker in the family drama series Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011) and Philip Jennings in the spy drama series The Americans (2013–2018). For his performance in The Americans, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2018 and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2019. He was also Emmy-nominated for his guest role in Girls (2017) and for playing the title role in the period series Perry Mason (2020–2023).
In film, Rhys appeared as Dylan Thomas in The Edge of Love (2008) and as Daniel Ellsberg in The Post (2017) and starred as a cynical journalist in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also voiced several characters in animated series, including Emperor Belos in The Owl House (2020–2023).
Early life and education
Rhys was born in Cardiff, Wales, on 8 November 1974 (some sources say 4 November).{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/matthew-rhys-p223537|title= Matthew Rhys|work=AllMovie|access-date=15 December 2018}} His first language is Welsh.{{cite news |title=Being Dylan {{!}} Matthew Rhys |url=https://www.visitwales.com/explore/literature/dylan-thomas/being-dylan |access-date=2 February 2019 |publisher=Visit Wales}} He grew up in Cardiff and attended Welsh-medium schools, Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd (in Whitchurch, Cardiff) and Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf (in Llandaff North, Cardiff). In 1993, he was awarded the Patricia Rothermere Scholarship.{{cite news|first=Rosanna|last=Greenstreet|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/oct/13/weekend7.weekend1|title=Q & A Matthew Rhys|date=13 October 2001|work=The Guardian|location=UK|access-date=7 March 2014}}
At age 17, after playing Elvis Presley in a school musical, he applied to and was accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. During Rhys's time at RADA, he appeared in the BBC police series Backup and in House of America. He returned to Cardiff to act in his own language in the Welsh film Bydd yn Wrol (Be Brave),{{cite web|title=Bydd yn Wrol|url=http://www.sky.com/tv/movie/bydd-yn-wrol-1997|work=sky.com|access-date=8 March 2017}} for which he won Best Actor at the BAFTA Cymru (Welsh BAFTAs).
Career
File:Matthew Rhys at 2007 GLAAD Awards.jpg]]
In January 1998, Rhys went to New Zealand to star in Greenstone, a colonial costume drama for television. He then landed a role in Titus, Julie Taymor's adaptation of Titus Andronicus, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. Next he played Ray in Peter Hewitt's comedy film Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? After returning to Wales, he did two consecutive films with Jonathan Pryce: The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, a film about a dysfunctional single-parent family in which he played the elder son, and Sara Sugarman's comedy Very Annie Mary, in which he played the role of Nob. Rhys would later reunite with Very Annie Mary star Rachel Griffiths on Brothers & Sisters.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qksm7EzYXuQ| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/Qksm7EzYXuQ| archive-date=17 November 2021 | url-status=live|title=Matthew Rhys - ABC News Interview December 5, 2006|date=7 October 2007|access-date=22 May 2017|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}
In 2000, Rhys played the lead role in Metropolis, a drama series for Granada TV about the lives of six twenty-somethings living in London.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2000/apr/30/features.review27|title=The new prince of Wales|date=30 April 2000|first=Kate |last=Kellaway|work=The Guardian | location=UK |access-date=13 February 2013}} Next he starred in Peaches, the film of the play written and directed by Nick Grosso.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/oct/12/culture.reviews|title=Peaches|date=12 October 2001|first=Peter | last=Bradshaw | work=The Guardian| location=UK|access-date=13 February 2013}}{{cite web|title=PEACHES (2000)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10001491_peaches|work=rottentomatoes.com|access-date=24 April 2017}} Rhys starred as Benjamin in the 2000 world premiere of the stage adaptation of The Graduate, alongside Kathleen Turner at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/matthew-rhys-wed-troll-off-to-la-and-try-to-nick-jobs-off-the-americans-8106987.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912210956/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/matthew-rhys-wed-troll-off-to-la-and-try-to-nick-jobs-off-the-americans-8106987.html |archive-date=12 September 2012 |url-status=live|title=Matthew Rhys:'We'd troll off to LA and try to nick jobs off the Americans|date=8 September 2012 |first=Gerard |last=Gilbert |work=The Independent |access-date=13 February 2013}} Rhys travelled to Ireland to star in the 18th-century swashbuckling adventure The Abduction Club.{{cite news| url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117918241/|title=The Abduction Club|date=18 July 2002|work=Variety|first=Derek | last=Elley | access-date=13 February 2013}} He played the lead role of Darren Daniels in Tabloid and then returned to New Zealand to shoot the epic drama The Lost World for the BBC. His other film credits include the independent horror film Deathwatch in Prague and Fakers, a comic crime caper.
In 2003, he played Justin Price in the final episode of the long-running television series Columbo.{{cite news|first=Hal |last=Erickson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/281431/Columbo-Columbo-Likes-the-Nightlife/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418052955/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/281431/Columbo-Columbo-Likes-the-Nightlife/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2014|title=Columbo: Columbo Likes the Nightlife (2003)|department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2014 |access-date=13 April 2014}} He appeared in the independent feature Love and Other Disasters, in Virgin Territory, and as poet Dylan Thomas in the love quadrangle biographical film The Edge of Love.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/jun/22/film.review1|title=Review: The Edge of Love|date=22 June 2008|first=Philip | last=French|work=The Guardian|location=UK | access-date=13 February 2013}} He moved to Santa Monica after being cast in ABC's show Brothers & Sisters as gay lawyer Kevin Walker. The show had a five-season run, coming to an end in 2011.
File:A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 05 (48734827821).jpg premiere, Toronto Film Festival, 2019]]
In January 2012, Rhys appeared in a BBC Two two-part drama adaptation of Charles Dickens's last, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/09_september/02/drood.shtml|title=BBC - Press Office - Cast announced for The Mystery Of Edwin Drood on BBC Two|website=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=22 May 2017}} The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aired it in the United States as one feature-length episode on 15 April 2012. In 2012, Rhys reprised Sir Alec Guinness's 1959 double role of John Barratt / Jacques DeGué in a new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's The Scapegoat.[http://www.island-pictures.co.uk Island Pictures] That same year, Rhys was cast as Jimmy in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger, at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. The production played a limited engagement through 8 April 2012.{{cite web|url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/theater/reviews/look-back-in-anger-starring-matthew-rhys.html?|title=The wounded and wounding in '50s Britain|date=2 February 2012|first=Charles |last = Isherwood|work=The New York Times |access-date=13 February 2013}} In 2013, Rhys starred in the television adaptation of the P. D. James novel Death Comes to Pemberley as Jane Austen hero Fitzwilliam Darcy.{{cite web | title=Death Comes to Pemberley | website=BBC | date=15 July 2024 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01mqkm5 | ref={{sfnref | BBC | 2024}} | access-date=15 July 2024}}
He starred opposite Keri Russell in the FX series The Americans, a 1980s Cold War spy drama about Russian KGB sleeper agents (Rhys and Russell, who portray married KGB agents with two children, among other agents and handlers). Rhys and Russell are partners off-screen as well. The show debuted in January 2013.{{cite web |last=Ausiello |first=Michael |date=31 January 2013 |title=Ratings: The Americans spies strong debut |url=http://tvline.com/2013/01/31/the-americans-ratings-premiere-fx/#more-402184 |access-date=13 February 2013 |work=TVLine.com}} The series aired its sixth and final season in 2018. Rhys received a Primetime Emmy Award for his acting in the sixth season.{{cite web|url=http://tvline.com/2012/03/16/matthew-rhyskeri-the-americans-fx/|title=Brothers & Sisters alumn Matthew Rhys cast opposite Keri Russell in FX's The Americans|date=16 March 2012|first=Michael | last=Ausiello|work=TVLine.com|access-date=13 February 2013}}
Business ventures
=Patagonia productions=
Rhys set up his own production company, Patagonia, in 2011. It has two projects in development. One of them involves an adaptation of a book titled Operation Julie, written by Lyn Ebenezer,Lyn Ebenezer – Cymru about the biggest LSD drugs bust in Wales's history; Rhys bought the film rights in December 2010.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/midwales/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9254000/9254211.stm|title=BBC - Matthew Rhys buys Operation Julie film rights|website=news.bbc.co.uk|date=3 December 2010 |access-date=22 May 2017}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14052153|title=Operation Julie: How an LSD raid began the war on drugs|first=Jon|last=Kelly|work=BBC News |date=12 July 2011|access-date=22 May 2017}} In 2023, Rhys spoke on a podcast about how he has been working on a potential film about Glyndwr's life and the rebellion, and that the production has been in development for 12 years.{{cite web|url=https://nation.cymru/culture/matthew-rhys-reveals-battle-to-get-a-biopic-of-owain-glyndwr-made/| title=Matthew Rhys reveals battle to get a biopic of Owain Glyndŵr made |date=8 November 2023| website=nation.cymru|access-date=31 December 2024}}
=Pubs=
With the help of Welsh actor Rhys Ifans, Rhys supported fundraising for the pub Vale of Aeron in Ystrad Aeron, Ceredigion, Wales.{{cite web |date=4 November 2022 |title=‘Glyndŵr would be proud,’ Hollywood star Matthew Rhys backs Welsh community pub hopes |url=https://nation.cymru/news/glyndwr-would-be-proud-hollywood-star-matthew-rhys-backs-welsh-community-pub-hopes/ |website=nation.cymru}}{{cite web |date=13 December 2021 |title=Fundraising target ‘surpassed’ in bid to resurrect community pub supported by Rhys Ifans and Matthew Rhys |url=https://nation.cymru/news/fundraising-target-surpassed-in-bid-to-resurrect-community-pub-supported-by-rhys-ifans-and-matthew-rhys/ |website=nation.cymru}} Rhys also invested in another pub in Pennal, a town in Gwynedd, North Wales, where his father grew up and Rhys would spend summers and Easters visiting. In 2019, the Glan Yr Afon (also Riverside) was put on the market without any buyers, but through a campaign supported by Rhys, there was a shares offering for the public which raised £450,000 to save the pub. The local community completed the purchase in December 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cged15rez9do |website=bbc.co.uk| title=Hollywood star helps reopen rescued village pub| date=30 July 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://riversidepennal.co.uk|website=riversidepennal.co.uk|title=Riverside / Glan Yr Afon, Pennal|access-date=7 August 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://menteryglan.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/MYG-Business-Plan-10-07-2023.pdf|website=menterglan.org|title=Menter y Glan Business Plan|access-date=7 August 2023}}
=Charter yacht=
In New York City, Rhys owns and rents a charter boat named Rarebit. The Wheeler boat was constructed circa 1934; Rhys bought it from eBay after researching the venture in 2017. He rebuilt the boat himself with the advice of shipwrights.{{cite web|url=https://www.moveablefeastny.com/about|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315131323/https://www.moveablefeastny.com/about|url-status=usurped|archive-date=15 March 2023|website=moveablefeastny.com|title=About|access-date=7 August 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://wheeleryachts.com/pilar/|website=wheeleryachts.com|access-date=7 August 2023|title=The Legendary Pilar}}{{cite web|date=1 June 2021|title=Inside Matthew Rhys' Hemingway-inspired 'tale of madness' to restore a boat|url=https://ew.com/celebrity/matthew-rhys-ernest-hemingway-boat-moveable-feast|website=ew.com}}
Personal life
Rhys has been in a relationship with his The Americans co-star Keri Russell since 2014.{{cite web|first1=Gillian |last1=Telling|title=Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys: Are They Dating?|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20769877,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226214520/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20769877,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 December 2013|work=People |date=26 December 2013 |access-date=16 September 2015}}{{cite web|first1=John |last1=Ortved|title=Oliver Jeffers's Art of Bearing Witness|url=https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/oliver-jeffers-dipped-paintings-project/?_r=0|work=The New York Times |date=30 April 2015 |access-date=16 September 2015}} They had their first child, a son, in 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/keri-russell-gives-birth-to-first-child-with-matthew-rhys-w165934|title=Keri Russell Gives Birth, Welcomes First Child With 'Americans' Costar Matthew Rhys!|work=usmagazine.com|date=30 May 2016 |access-date=30 May 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://celebritybabies.people.com/2016/07/01/keri-russell-matthew-rhys-son-named-sam/|title=Keri Russell Reveals Name and Sex of Her First Child with Matthew Rhys – and Says the Baby Is Doing 'So Good'|work=People|date=1 July 2016|access-date=23 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701162148/http://celebritybabies.people.com/2016/07/01/keri-russell-matthew-rhys-son-named-sam/|archive-date=1 July 2016|url-status=dead}} In interviews conducted in 2021, they referred to each other as husband and wife.{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqq6ekzDcZI | title=Keri Russell's Kids Call Her Friend Group "Moms Gone Wild" | website=YouTube }}{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quT-aBwZnko | title=Watch Matthew Rhys Set Sail with al Roker | website=YouTube }} although in an interview in 2025, Rhys said “we literally haven’t got round to marriage yet."{{cite web | url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/matthew-rhys-interview-towards-zero-56j9nblhw | title=Matthew Rhys: My secret relationship was exposed by a burglary | date=March 10, 2025 }}
He is a supporter of Plaid Cymru,{{cite web|url=http://golwg360.cymru/newyddion/cymru/153388-matthew-rhys-yn-ymuno-a-phlaid-cymru|title=Matthew Rhys yn ymuno â Phlaid Cymru|date=7 July 2014 |access-date=22 May 2017}} actively supporting Welsh independence.{{Cite web |title=Matthew Rhys |url=https://www.yesismore.cymru/artists/matthew-rhys/ |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=yes is more |language=en-GB}}{{Better source needed|date=October 2022|reason=A picture on the campaign website does not encapsulate his views and merely infers his consent to associate with it}}
On 15 July 2008, Aberystwyth University honoured Rhys as a fellow.{{cite web|url=http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2008/july/title-77733-en.html|title=Graduation 2008 - Aberystwyth University|website=www.aber.ac.uk|access-date=22 May 2017}} On 8 August 2008, he was honoured at the Welsh National Eisteddfod by being accepted as a member to the druidic order of the Gorsedd of the Bards{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7549086.stm|title=BBC NEWS - UK - Wales - Hollywood star Rhys joins druids|website=news.bbc.co.uk|date=8 August 2008 |access-date=22 May 2017}} for his contributions to the Welsh language and Wales. His bardic name in the Gorsedd is Matthew Tâf. In August 2009, Rhys took to the stage with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales as part of the National Eisteddfod.{{cite web|url=http://www.eisteddfod.org.uk/english/content.php?nID=244&newsID=66|title=Performing with National Youth Orchestra|access-date=22 May 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426060658/http://www.eisteddfod.org.uk/english/content.php?nID=244&newsID=66|archive-date=26 April 2012}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1996
| Bydd yn Wrol | {{TableTBA|N/A}} | |
| 1997
| Boyo | |
| rowspan="3"|1999
| Sean McCardle | |
| Titus
| Demetrius | |
| Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
| Ray Smith | |
| rowspan="2"|2000
| Sorted | Carl | |
| The Testimony of Taliesin Jones
| Jonathan | |
| rowspan="3"|2001
| Peaches | Frank | |
| Tabloid
| Darren Daniels | |
| Very Annie Mary
| Nob | |
| rowspan="3"|2002
| data-sort-value="Abduction Club, The" |The Abduction Club | James Strang | |
| Deathwatch
| Doc Fairweather | |
| Shooters
| Eddie | |
| 2003
| Lleu Llaw Gyffes | |
| 2004
| Fakers | Nick Edwards | |
| 2006
| Peter Simon | |
| 2007
| Count Dzerzhinsky | |
| 2008
| data-sort-value="Edge of Love, The" | The Edge of Love | |
| rowspan="2"|2010
|Luster | Joseph Miller | |
| Patagonia
| Mateo | |
| 2012
| data-sort-value="Scapegoat, The" | The Scapegoat | John Standing / Johnny Spence | |
| rowspan="2"|2015
| Montgomery Reece | |
| Come What May
| Percy | |
| 2017
| data-sort-value="Post, The" | The Post |
| 2018
| Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle | John Lockwood |
| rowspan="2"|2019
| data-sort-value="Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, A" |A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Lloyd Vogel |
| data-sort-value="Report, The" | The Report
| New York Times reporter |
| 2021
| Grimes (voice) |
| 2023
| |
| rowspan="3" | 2024
| IF | Ghost (voice) |
| Watchmen
| Dan Dreiberg / Nite Owl, additional voices | Direct-to-video{{cite web |last=Vejvoda |first=Jim |date=10 July 2024 |title=Watchmen Chapter I: Exclusive Trailer, Voice Cast, Boxart and Release Date |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/watchmen-chapter-1-animated-film-trailer-cast-release-date-plot-boxart |website=IGN}} |
| Saturday Night |
| 2025
| TBA |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1997
| PC Steve 'Hiccup' Higson | 6 episodes |
| 1999
|Greenstone | Sam Markham | Unknown episodes |
| rowspan="2"| 2000
| data-sort-value="History of Britain, A" |A History of Britain |{{TableTBA|N/A}} | Unknown episodes |
| Metropolis
| Matthew Bishop | 5 episodes |
| 2001
| data-sort-value="Lost World, The" | The Lost World | Edward Malone | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="3"| 2003
| Justin Price | Episode: "Columbo Likes the Nightlife" |
| Partners and Crime
| {{TableTBA|N/A}} | Television film |
| POW
| Alfie Harris | Episode #1.5 |
| 2006
| Beau Brummell: This Charming Man | Television film |
| 2006–2011
| Main role |
| 2010
| Mr Hollywood | — | Producer; S4C-TV documentary{{cite web|url=http://www.s4c.co.uk/ffeithiol/e_mrhollywood.shtml|title=Ffeithiol S4C|website=www.s4c.co.uk|access-date=22 May 2017}} |
| 2011
| LA Phil Live | Hamlet | Episode: "Dudamel Conducts Tchiakovsky" |
| 2012
| data-sort-value="Mystery of Edwin Drood, The" | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | John Jasper | 2 episodes |
| 2013
| 3 episodes |
| 2013–2018
| data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | Main role |
| 2014
| Under Milk Wood | New York Voice | Television film |
| rowspan="2"| 2015
| Archer | Lloyd Llewellyn (voice) | Episode: "Achub y Morfilod"; credited for episode's story |
| data-sort-value="Bastard Executioner, The" | The Bastard Executioner
| Gruffudd y Blaidd / the Wolf | 4 episodes |
| 2016–2020
| data-sort-value="Wine Show, The" | The Wine Show | Himself (co-host) | Main role |
| rowspan="2"| 2017
| Girls | Chuck Palmer | Episode: "American Bitch" |
| Snowdonia 1890
| Narrator | Main role |
| rowspan="2"| 2018
| Billy | 3 episodes |
| Down the Caravan
| Dai | Television film |
| rowspan="3"| 2019
| Justin Kenyon (voice) | Episode: "A Quick One, While He's Away" |
| Carpool Karaoke: The Series
| Himself (co-host) | Season 2, episode 17 |
| Infinity Train
| Aloysius, Alrick (voice) |
| rowspan="2"| 2020–2023 |
| data-sort-value="Owl House, The" | The Owl House
| Emperor Belos (voice) | Recurring role{{Cite web |last=Milligan |first=Mercedes |date=2021-05-17 |title=Disney Channel Conjures S3 of ‘The Owl House’ Ahead of S2 Premiere in June |url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/2021/05/disney-channel-conjures-s3-of-the-owl-house-ahead-of-s2-premiere-in-june/ |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=Animation Magazine |language=en-US}} |
| 2022
| Figgy (voice) | 6 episodes |
| rowspan="2"| 2023
| Junior | Episode: "2037: A Raven Story" |
| Gremlins
| Riley Greene (voice) | 10 episodes{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/gremlins-ming-na-wen-bd-wong-matthew-rhys-1234908519/ |title='Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai' Adds Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong, Matthew Rhys to Cast (Exclusive) |first=Mónica Marie |last=Zorrilla |website=Variety |date=February 16, 2021 |access-date=June 15, 2022}} |
| 2024
| Gammon Felda/The Florid Sword (voice) | Season 2 recurring role; 3 episodes{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722629/|title=Matthew Rhys|author=|website=IMDb|access-date=April 11, 2024}} |
| 2025
| Inspector Leach | Three-part miniseries |
| rowspan="2"| {{tableTBA}}
| Wyrd | Wyrd | FX's TV show{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/12/matthew-rhys-star-wyrd-drama-based-on-comic-fx-sheldon-turner-vendetta-1234657691 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201216230253/https://deadline.com/2020/12/matthew-rhys-star-wyrd-drama-based-on-comic-fx-sheldon-turner-vendetta-1234657691/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 December 2020 |title=Deadline|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=16 December 2020 |access-date=17 December 2020}} |
| The Beast in Me
| |
=Theatre=
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year ! Play ! Role ! Playwright ! Venue ! class=unsortable|Ref. |
| rowspan="4"| 1997
|Cardiff East |Tommy |
| Grace Note
|Nick |
| One More Wasted Year
|Pierre |Christophe Pellet |rowspan="2"| Royal Court Theatre |
| Stranger's House (Fremdes Haus)
|Yanne |
| 2000
| data-sort-value="Graduate, The" |The Graduate |Benjamin Braddock |
| 2002
| data-sort-value="Associate, The" |The Associate |Tiny |Royal National Theatre |
| 2003
|Mog Edwards | |
| rowspan="3"| 2004
|rowspan="3"| William Shakespeare |
| Macbeth |
| Romeo and Juliet
|Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 2012
|Jimmy |
Awards and nominations
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Award
! Year ! Category ! Nominated work ! Result ! class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}} |
|---|
| rowspan="6" |Critics' Choice Television Awards | 2013 | Best Actor in a Drama Series | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} |
| 2014
|Best Actor in a Drama Series | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} | {{cite web|url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/critics-choice-television-awards-2014-2-712986/|title= Critics’ Choice Television Awards 2014: Complete Winners List|website= The Hollywood Reporter|accessdate= May 11, 2024}} |
| 2015
|Best Actor in a Drama Series | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} |
| 2016
|Best Actor in a Drama Series | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} | {{cite web|url= https://deadline.com/2016/11/television-nominees-for-2016-critics-choice-awards-unveiled-1201853806/|title= Critics’ Choice TV Nominations Unveiled|website= Deadline Hollywood|accessdate= May 11, 2024}} |
| 2019
|Best Actor in a Drama Series | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{won}} |
| 2021
|Best Actor in a Drama Series | {{nom}} |
| Drama League Award
| 2004 | Distinguished Performance | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="3" |Golden Globe Awards
| 2016 | Best Actor – Television Series Drama | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} |
| 2018
|Best Actor – Television Series Drama | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} |
| 2020
|Best Actor – Television Series Drama | Perry Mason | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="5" |Primetime Emmy Awards
| 2016 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans {{small|(episode: "The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears")}} | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="2"| 2017
| Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | Girls {{small|(episode: "American Bitch")}} | {{nom}} |
| rowspan=2| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
| data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans {{small|(episode: "Crossbreed")}} | {{nom}} |
| 2018
| data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans {{small|(episode: "START")}} | {{won}} |
| 2021
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Perry Mason {{small|(episode: "Chapter 8")}} | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="3" |Satellite Awards
| 2017 | Best Actor – Television Series Drama | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} |
| 2019
|Best Actor – Television Series Drama | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} |
| 2021
|Best Actor – Television Series Drama | Perry Mason | {{nom}} | |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards
| 2018 | Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="4" |TCA Awards
| 2013 | Individual Achievement in Drama | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} | rowspan="4" | |
| 2014
|Individual Achievement in Drama | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} |
| 2015
|Individual Achievement in Drama | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} |
| 2018
|Individual Achievement in Drama | data-sort-value="Americans, The" | The Americans | {{nom}} |
Bibliography
References
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External links
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- [http://vimeo.com/8893511 The Think Tank]
- [http://vimeo.com/27540552 Everything Carries Me To You]
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