Possessing dark, curly hair, hooded green eyes and angular features, Rufus Sewell has proven equally at home in period fare or contemporary works. The tall, masculine actor first garnered widespread attention in 1994 with featured role in the British TV adaptation of "Middlemarch" (aired in the USA on PBS) and as the object of Albert Finney's crush in the underrated comedy "A Man of No Importance".

The son of a Welsh mother and an Australian father, Sewell was raised in his mother's homeland after the untimely death of his father, cartoonist Bill Sewell in 1977. He has confessed to being "quite