About Rhys Ifans
Rhys Owain Evans, known as Rhys Ifans, is a Welsh actor. He has portrayed roles in Twin Town (1997), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), Notting Hill (1999), Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), Enduring Love (2004), and The Boat That Rocked (2009), in addition to Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), and Grigori Rasputin in The King's Man (2021). His television roles include Hector DeJean in the Epix thriller series Berlin Station, Mycroft Holmes in the CBS series Elementary, and Otto Hightower in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon. In 2004, his performance as Peter Cook in the TV film Not Only But Always won him the BAFTA Best Actor at the 2005 British Academy Television Awards. Later it was revealed that Ifans was not actually present on set and only lent his voice for the character created through digital means, with his human form at the end of the film being from archival footage from The Amazing Spider-Man. Ifans was briefly lead vocalist of the rock band Super Furry Animals before they released any records. In September 2012, Ifans became a patron of the Welsh-language Wikipedia, together with Dr Barry Morgan, the then Archbishop of Wales.
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