Ioan Gruffudd
Biography
Date of Birth 6 October 1973, Cardiff, Wales, UK Height 5' 11" (1.80 m) Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh 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. The popular Welsh name 'Ioan' is an equivalent of 'John', and 'Gruffudd' corresponds to the Anglicized 'Griffiths'. He attended Ysgol Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd, and Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, where he sat his GCSEs and A Levels. A natural musician, Gruffudd was an accomplished oboist in his teens, but gave it up once acting overtook his time. He also won prizes for his singing while at school. Gruffudd started his acting career at the age of 12 in a Welsh television film named Austin and then later moved onto the Welsh language soap opera Pobol y Cwm (People of the Valley). At the age of 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. After playing Oscar Wilde's lover John Gray in Wilde in 1997, he took his first international role as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the blockbuster film Titanic. He later got his best-known role as Horatio Hornblower in the Meridian production of the C.S. Forester novels, shown on ITV1 and A&E. 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 (as Lancelot) and most recently Fantastic Four. Gruffudd also starred in the music video of Westlife's version of "Uptown Girl" alongside Claudia Schiffer. He is a native Welsh speaker. He was accepted into the Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain (=Bardic Order of Great Britain) at the highest rank in the National Eisteddfod at Meifod in 2003, with the bardic name Ioan.
Fantastic Four
Reed Richards
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Mr. Fantastic / Reed Richards
King Arthur
Lancelot
Sanctum
Carl
The Secret of Moonacre
Sir Benjamin Merryweather / Sir Wrolf Merryweather
102 Dalmatians
Kevin Sheperd
The Gathering
Dan Blakeley
Horatio Hornblower: The Duel
Midshipman Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower: The Mutiny
3rd Lt. Horatio Hornblower
Foster
Alec
Seven Snipers
Milk
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Lockwood
Ava
Peter
The Professor and the Madman
Henry Bradley
We're in Your Home
Carl Mitchell
Mr Calzaghe
Self
San Andreas 3D
Daniel Riddick
Playing it Cool
Stuffy
Under Milk Wood
Mog Edwards
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
Charles Mundi
Horrible Bosses
Wetwork Man
Foster
Alec
Sanctum
Carl
The Kid
Colin Smith
W.
Tony Blair
The Secret of Moonacre
Sir Benjamin Merryweather / Sir Wrolf Merryweather
Fireflies In The Garden
Addison Wesley
Agent Crush (voice)
American Breakdown
Simon (segment "The Little Things")
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Mr. Fantastic / Reed Richards
The TV Set
Richard McCallister
Amazing Grace
William Wilberforce
Fantastic Four
Reed Richards
King Arthur
Lancelot
This Girl's Life
Daniel
Horatio Hornblower: Duty
Commander Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower - The New Adventures (Loyalty / Duty)
Commander Horatio Hornblower
The Gathering
Dan Blakeley
Man and Boy
Harry Silver
Black Hawk Down
Beales
Happy Now
Max Bracchi
Another Life
Frederick Bywaters
Very Annie Mary
Hob
Hornblower: Retribution
3rd Lt. Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower: The Mutiny
3rd Lt. Horatio Hornblower
Shooters
Freddy Guns
102 Dalmatians
Kevin Sheperd
Solomon & Gaenor
Solomon Levinsky
Great Expectations
Pip
Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War
Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
Acting Lieutenant Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower: The Duel
Midshipman Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower: The Fire Ships
Acting Lt. Horatio Hornblower
Titanic
Fifth Officer Lowe
Wilde
John Gray
Poldark
Jeremy Poldark
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Henry Bradley
