This tall, attractive, reed-thin actor with expressive eyes is perhaps best remembered as Theo, older brother of artist Vincent Van Gogh in Robert Altman's "Vincent & Theo" (1990).Rhys was still attending the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London when he was cast as the stylish Dean Swift, a "sharp modern jazz creation" in Julien Temple's "Absolute Beginners" (1986). Small roles as the Mayor of Underground City in Franklin J Schaffner's medieval epic "Lion Heart" (1987) and a 'Bright Young Gentleman' in Christine Edzard's adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Little Dorrit" (1988)
