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Ioan Gruffudd (pronounced YO-AN GRIFF-ITH) (born October 6, 1973 in Cardiff,
South Glamorgan, Wales) is a Cymraeg (Welsh)-speaking actor. His parents,
Peter and Gillian Gruffudd, were teachers. He has two siblings – a brother,
Alun, who is two years younger, and a sister, Siwan, who is seven years
younger than he is.
Gruffudd started his acting career at the age of 14 in the Welsh soap opera
Pobol y Cwm (People of the Valley). Aged 18 he attended the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art (RADA). He won his first major English language role a few
years later in the 1996 TV remake of Poldark.
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After playing Oscar Wilde's gay lover in Wilde in 1997, he got his first
international role as Fifth Officer Harold Godfrey Lowe in the blockbuster
film Titanic. He later got his best-known role as Horatio Hornblower in the
ITV production of the C.S. Forester novels. Next, he played Pip in the BBC
production of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. He has also starred in
102 Dalmatians, ITV's adaptation of The Forsyte Saga, Black Hawk Down, King
Arthur and most recently Fantastic Four.
Was invited and accepted into Gorsedd y Beirdd Ynys Prydain (the [Welsh]
Bardic Order of Great Britain) at the highest rank in the National
Eisteddfod at Meifod in 2003, with the bardic name Ioan.
Currently living with his English girlfriend in Los Angeles, California. |
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