Paul Rhys (December 19, 1963), is a Welsh actor, best known for his television work.
Rhys was born in Neath, and studied at RADA. While there, he obtained his first major screen role, in Absolute Beginners (1986). The following year he appeared in the BBC serialisation of My Family and Other Animals. Since then he has seldom been off UK television screens. In 1995, he portrayed Simon Templar (aka "The Saint") for a series of radio plays. In 1998 he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for his performance in King Lear.
He had a relationship with Australian actress Arkie Whiteley, with whom he appeared in Gallowglass; she died in 2001.
Paul Rhys was born on 19 December 1963 in Neath, Wales. He has said that seeing the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever was what first got him interested in becoming an actor. During his time at RADA Rhys was cast as Dean Sharp in Julien Temple's 1986 film Absolute Beginners. In the early 1990s he played 2 brothers in Hollywood biopics: Theo Van Gogh alongside Tim Roth in Robert Altman (I)'s Vincent & Theo (1990) and Sydney Chaplin opposite Robert Downey Jr. in Richard Attenborough's bio pic, Chaplin (1992). His other film roles include the part of the Photographer in Nina Takes a Lover (1994) and Dr Ferral in From Hell (2001). Paul Rhys lives in West London.
