Ioan Gruffudd
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: Cardiff, 06 October 2020
They had toyed with the idea of getting hitched in Cardiff but in the end decided that the big day should "celebrate our new life in America".
And perhaps climate has a part to play too. Wales is not known for its balmy weather and the actor said Alice has her heart set on an outdoor ceremony.
"Alice has this idea of being married on the beach," he said.
With his new films Agent Crush and Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer due for release this year, he certainly shouldn’t have a problem funding a glamorous wedding. No matter what the location.
Ioan’s bid for Hornblower revival - Feb 20 2007
He might have hit the Hollywood big time, but Ioan Gruffudd wants to play the character who first made him famous again and get Hornblower on the silver screen.
The handsome Welsh actor, who lives in Los Angeles with his fiancee Alice Evans, wants to resurrect the role of naval officer Horatio Hornblower, who he played in eight TV movies from 1998, the Daily Express reports.
But brave Ioan would apparently have to go it alone, funding and producing the film himself, because the TV company A&E have no plans to make any more.
The 33-year-old last played Hornblower in 2003 and now hopes to secure the rights to the original novels by CS Forester.
He says he would really like to appear in a modern remake of the 1951 film Captain Horatio Hornblower which starred Gregory Peck.
"I would love to play Hornblower again," he told the paper.
"I have a dream of playing him on the big screen and maybe doing a remake of Captain Horatio Hornblower, aka Gregory Peck.
"A&E decided that since it’s such an expensive venture to make these movies for television, they’re not going to make any more at this point. So it’s down to me, I think, to try and bring it to life."
Gruffudd backs bid to save Burberry - Nov 27 2006
Hollywood star Ioan Gruffudd has thrown his weight behind the campaign to save 300 jobs at a closure-threatened Burberry factory.
The firm’s Rhondda Valley plant, in south Wales, is the centre of a high profile campaign aimed at ensuring production is not switched overseas.
Gruffudd, who grew up in nearby Aberdare, has written to the firm’s chief executive asking her to reconsider.
His intervention comes as a result of local AM Leighton Andrews who released a letter from Gruffudd outlining his action.
Gruffudd and Oscar winning actress Rachel Weisz were recruited by the British firm last year as global faces of the brand.
Bosses at Burberry have been increasingly under fire since announcing plans to axe their Welsh plant and switch production to China.
That factory is close to where Gruffudd, star of TV’s Hornblower and blockbusters such as the Fantastic Four, grew up.
Mr Andrews, AM for Rhondda, contacted Gruffudd asking for his support in the battle to keep the plant in Britain.
In a letter of thanks to Mr Andrews, originally written in his native Welsh, Gruffudd joins the revolt against the Burberry decision.
His intervention is just the latest in a growing backlash against Burberry which includes the Prince of Wales, who is understood to have contacted the Government asking how he might help.
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Ioan started his acting career as a child star in the Welsh soap opera Pobol Y Cwm from 1989 to 1994. He then left home to attend the prestigious Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts in London, England in 1992. Graduating in June of 1995, he almost immediately got work.
His first big break came when fellow Welsh thesp and writer Ed Thomas, spotted his talent and cast him as Karl Stranger in a 1996 "A Mind to Kill" episode titled Strange Territory.
1997 was the year when the world sat up and started taking a real interest in Ioan. He put in two very strong performances in supporting roles in two huge blockbuster films. The first was his role as John Grey in Wilde and the second as Fifth Officer Lowe in Titanic. Fifth Officer Lowe was the only man to go back and look for survivers (and so in this role Iaon got to rescue Kate Winslet!)
Title roles in films and TV series soon came flooding in, he was the title role in Horatio Hornblower, Soloman in Soloman and Gaenor and a grown up Pip in Great Expectations. He was recently on our screens in The Forsythe Saga as talented architect and unintentional heartbreaker Phillip Bosinney.
November 2007