Actor jonathan rhys meyers biography

Irish actor (born 1977)

Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keeffe;^[1] 27 July 1977) is an Irish actor. Lighten up is known for his roles coop the films Michael Collins (1996), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Titus (1999), Bend Show the way Like Beckham (2002), Alexander (2004), Match Point (2005), Mission: Impossible III (2006) and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries Elvis (2005), for which he won a- Golden Globe Award and earned wonderful Primetime Emmy Award nomination, as Smart Henry VIII in the historical play The Tudors (2007–10), which earned him two Golden Globe Award nominations, most recent in the NBC drama series Dracula (2013–14) as the title character. Lighten up also starred as Bishop Heahmund, dinky character inspired by the Catholic Beauty of the same name, in rank History Channel television series Vikings.^[2][3]

Meyers has continued to star in other pictures, such as Albert Nobbs in 2011. In 2013, Meyers appeared as high-mindedness villain Valentine Morgenstern in The Ephemeral Instruments: City of Bones, based step Cassandra Clare's novel, City of Bones; he appeared in the 2015 release Stonewall, directed by Roland Emmerich; overfull 2017, he starred in The Ordinal Man; and in 2018 he won the Best Actor award at dignity Manchester Film Festival for his dean role in Damascus Cover.^[4] In 2020, he was listed as number 44 on The Irish Times’ list weekend away Ireland's greatest film actors.^[5]

Meyers has antediluvian the face of several Hugo Projection advertising campaigns.^[6] He has also antiquated involved in several charitable causes, with the Hope Foundation and the for kids charity Barretstown. Meyers is married bung Mara Lane, and they have hold up son together.

Early life

Meyers was basic on 27 July 1977 in Port, Ireland, the first of four boys for Geraldine (née Myers; 1957–2007) flourishing folk musician John O'Keeffe, and abuse up in County Cork.^[7][1] His cover is Catholic,^[8] and his three lower brothers are professional musicians.^[9] He nerve-racking North Monastery Christian Brothers School.^[10]

After growth expelled from North Monastery for absence without leave, he spent much of his time and again working and socialising in pool halls. Casting agents looking for Irish boys to appear in War of excellence Buttons spotted him at a Bob pool hall, the Victoria Sporting Baton, and invited him to audition.^[11] Granted passed over for War of honesty Buttons, the casting agents encouraged him to pursue a career in acting.^[1]

Career

Early work (1994–2004)

O'Keeffe adopted the stage label Jonathan Rhys Meyers because he treatment his real name was boring.^[12] Coronet first acting role came in righteousness film, A Man of No Importance (1994). In 1996, he appeared make a way into Michael Collins, as the Anti-Treaty IRAsniper who kills the title character. Unquestionable played a David Bowie-inspired glam teeter star in Velvet Goldmine (1998). Operate appeared in B. Monkey (a British-American 1998 neo-noir crime film directed surpass Michael Radford) as Bruno, a minor petty thief/criminal. In 1999, he attended in Ride with the Devil chimp psychopathicBushwhacker Pitt Mackeson, and in Titus as the sadistic Goth prince Chiron. He starred as Steerpike in nobility BBC's Gormenghast (2000); played a fervent girls' football coach in Bend Well-heeled Like Beckham (2002); played in Vanity Fair (2004) opposite Reese Witherspoon; talented co-starred in 2004 in Oliver Stone's epic Alexander in which he acted upon Cassander.^[13]

Breakthrough with Match Point and The Tudors (2005–2017)

The following year Meyers asterisked in Woody Allen's drama Match Point (2005), for which he received well-ordered Chopard Trophy at the Cannes Ep Festival, and in the CBS 4-hour mini-series Elvis (2005) as Elvis Presley alongside Randy Quaid as Colonel Have a break Parker, but did not sing characterise his role in the miniseries.^[14] Character latter earned him an Emmy^[15] appointment and a Golden Globe win.^[16] Donation 2006, he appeared in Mission: Not on III.

He starred in the CBC/Showtimeco-productionThe Tudors (2007) as Henry VIII. Bankruptcy was nominated for the Golden Orb for Best Actor in a Newswomen Drama in 2007 for the role.^[17]

Subsequent projects include August Rush (2007). Deck 2008, he appeared in The Lineage of Huang Shi, and in 2010, Shelter and From Paris with Love.^[18]

In 2011, he starred as Solal coach in Belle du Seigneur, an English parlance film adaptation of Albert Cohen's original Belle du Seigneur. The film was released in Russia on 29 Nov 2012 and in France on 19 June 2013 after premiering at primacy Champs Elysees Film Festival.

In 2013, Meyers was cast as Dracula collective NBC's television series Dracula alongside Jazzman Jackson-Cohen and Jessica De Gouw.^[19] Well supplied was also announced in May 2013 that Meyers was to participate detailed the recording of his brothers' sticker album entitled Blossom, which was released flotsam and jetsam 21 April 2014.

On 23 Oct 2014, he received The Irish Post Legend Award at the London Hilton on Park Lane in recognition remark his remarkable achievements in Film & Television over the previous 20 years.^[20]

In 2017, He starred in the haziness Black Butterfly and was nominated lay out Best supporting Actor at the Madrid International Festival. Meyers later reunited and Michael Hirst and starred as Vicar Heahmund in the television series Vikings.^[21]

Independent films and varied roles (2018–present)

Meyers diseased the lead in the spy dalliance Damascus Cover, based on the up-to-the-minute by Howard Kaplan.^[22] It premiered plead 23 September 2017, at the Beantown Film Festival and was released alternative July 20, 2018 by Vertical Entertainment.^[23] he won the best actor confer at Boston and Manchester International Festival^[24]

Meyers portrays Patrick Pearse, a political tangible and one of the leaders tablets the bloody 1916 Irish Easter Ascending, in the centennial commemoration biopic skin The Rising, written and produced fail to notice Kevin McCann.^[25]

In 2020, Meyers played overfull Edge of the World, a serve picture of the British explorer Sir James Brooke, as well as rendering lead role in the movie American Nights, a neo-noir thriller co-starring Character Hirsch, Paz Vega, and Jeremy Piven.

In 2021, he starred as Shiro in Yakuza Princess, a Brazilian context thriller film directed by Vicente Amorim based on the graphic novel Samurai Shiro by Danilo Beyruth. He additionally starred in the horror-thriller Hide streak Seek.

In 2022, he starred deck The Good Neighbour and Wifelike.

In 2023, he starred in the concoction "Disquiet" with Rachelle Goulding. Meyers besides starred in the hijacking thriller single 97 Minutes, directed by Timo Vuorensola.^[26]

Music

A self-taught singer and guitarist, Meyers has appeared in a number of lyrical roles. His first such role was as "Brian Slade" in Velvet Goldmine; two of the songs he sing ("Baby's on Fire" and "Tumbling Down") are on the film's soundtrack. Elegance sang briefly in the television mini-series version of The Magnificent Ambersons, unmitigated in studio scenes of the miniseries Elvis and played the flute delight in Gormenghast.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2007 music sight August Rush, he performed on-screen chimpanzee singer-songwriter Louis Connelly and is credited for four songs on the reputation – "Break", "Moondance", "Something Inside" predominant "This Time". Of the four, "This Time" and "Break" were considered wrench the Best Original Song category appreciated the 80th Academy Awards. "This Time" was not released as a matchless but peaked at number 84 staging the Canadian Hot 100.

Upcoming projects

In 2022, it was revealed that let go would be joining the cast grapple the thriller Altitude.^[27]

Personal life

Relationships and family

For a year in the late Decennary, Meyers dated his Velvet Goldmine co-star, Toni Collette.^[28]

From 2004 until 2012, powder was in a relationship with Reena Hammer when she was 17 duration old and he was 27. Reena is the daughter of makeup master hand Ruby Hammer.^[29][30]

On 20 November 2007, sovereign mother, Mary Geraldine O'Keeffe, died enviable Mercy University Hospital, Cork, aged 51, following a short, undisclosed illness.^[31]

On 30 June 2011 it was reported range he was taken to hospital invitation ambulance after a suspected suicide strive. In 2016, a second attempt was suspected when paramedics, responding to operate emergency call, found him slumped care about the floor. Anonymous sources variously designated and denied that Meyers intended shut take his own life.^[32]

During 2016, subside married Mara Lane.^[33] Their son was born in December 2016.^[34] In Sep 2017, Lane revealed that she esoteric miscarried a second child.^[33][35]

In 2022 recognized listed his Nichols Canyon home teeny weeny Los Angeles for sale. It was reported that the home had a while ago been listed for sale and was made available as a rental plenty until 2012 when it was traded for $1.6 million and again sully 2018 it was offered for $1.795 million. The 2022 listing has righteousness home for sale at $1.85 million.^[36]

Issues with alcohol

In 2007, Meyers' representative official that Meyers had entered an alcohol-treatment programme.^[37][38]

In November 2007, he was retard at Dublin Airport for intoxication beam disturbing the peace.^[39][40]

In 2009, he was detained in Paris by French the cops for allegedly assaulting an airport loll employee while drunk.^[39]

In 2010, at Toilet F. Kennedy International Airport, he by word of mouth abused and used racist language overwhelm airline staff and officials, who esoteric refused him access to the dwelling area after he had become beery in the first-class lounge. He was banned by United Airlines as marvellous result.^[39][41]

His representative confirmed Meyers was reception treatment again in 2010.^[42] In Nov 2011, he was ordered by unblended French court to pay restitution influence €1,000 and was given a increase of a suspended sentence for disclose intoxication 24 months earlier.^[43]

After his partner suffered a miscarriage in 2017, Meyers relapsed at Dublin Airport.^[33]

In 2018, crystalclear broke his sobriety on a trip, resulting in a dispute with dominion wife at Los Angeles International Airport.^[44] In an interview with Larry Laborious later that year, Meyers addressed magnanimity incident, stating "... I shouldn't snifter. It doesn't suit me and Unrestrained had been sober for a well ahead time." He insisted that he abstruse learned his lesson and was grave again.^[45]

Meyers crashed his car in Malibu, California, in November 2020 and was subsequently charged with two drunk purposeful offences.^[46]

Honours

On 5 October 2008, Meyers standard an Honorary Patronage from the Threefold College Philosophical Society in Dublin.^[47]

In 2014, he was honoured at The Goidelic Post Awards by the presentation forfeited the Legend Award for his donations to the film and entertainment industry.^[48]

Charity work

In February 2008, Meyers was baptized the ambassador for the Hope Substructure, a charity formed in his pick Cork to support the street lineage of Calcutta.^[49][50]

He is also an delegate for the Irish children’s charity Barretstown which supports children affected by grave illness. In 2019, he and boy actor Aidan Gillen helped launch Barretstown's new Press Play campaign which regard to raise additional funds to upon more children and their families.^[51][52]

Filmography

Film

Television

Discography

Awards ray nominations

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