Ioan Gruffudd
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: Cardiff, 06 October 2020
Ioan’s "muscle Suit’ admission - Aug 05
Ioan Gruffudd has admitted that the impressive muscles he’s seen sporting in new film The Fantastic Four owe more to the "muscle suit" he wears beneath his costume than to some strenuous sessions down at the gym.
The actor owned up to his short-cut to a buff bod, saying "I cheated a little bit. I was given a muscle suit to wear. But just to enhance what was already there of course." Of course, Ioan.
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Stepping out in style - Feb 05
Ioan Gruffudd takes his well groomed self along to the Elle Style Awards - is it any wonder that he’s rumoured to be the next James Bond?
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Talking Bond - August 04
Ioan Gruffud has spoken out about being tipped to play James Bond. "It would be fantastic to have a go" said the actor, who is hotly tipped, alongside Clive Owen to take the role. "I wouldn’t model myself on any of the previous Bonds, I’d be unique and original and I’d treat my Bond girls with a lot of respect." Ioan told press that he would say yes "in a second" if he was offered the role but that he has yet to be approached. "I think people would welcome a Welsh James Bond" he commented - we quite agree
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Ioan Gruffudd is getting hitched! August 04
The King Arthur star is making plans to marry his long-term girlfriend Alice Evans back home in Wales. The actor, who is currently working on the set of comic book adventure Fantastic Four, in which he will star as Mr. Fantastic, is planning a lavish ceremony but has yet to announce a date. The couple met while working on children’s film, 102 Dalmatians.
Ioan Gruffudd in US drama - 24/01/03
Welshman Ioan Gruffudd has found success in the US after landing the lead role in a new legal drama.
The 29-year-old will play the central character in a new series called Century City which is set 50 years in the future.
US TV bosses are confident he’ll be a big hit in the new show, after his role in 2001 film Hornblower went down well with audiences.
Ioan blows horn for Wales - 04/12/02
Cardiff man Ioan Gruffudd is one of many Welsh celebrities that are supporting the new Wales Screen Commission - which is proving to be the best way of selling Wales as a film location to Hollywood.
The Wales Screen Commission takes the place of the separate regional commissions, and it is hoped that the body will make Wales a one-stop shop for film-makers. So we can hopefully expect to see Hollywood celebs strolling around our high streets fairly soon - come on Brad Pitt! (But leave Jen at home yeah?)
Ioan Grufford & Matthew Rhys headline charity ball - 26/10/02
Top Welsh actors Ioan Gruffudd and Matthew Rhys headed the guest list at a charity ball to help people with spinal injuries.
The charity, called Trust PA, was being launched at a gala ball in the Coal Exchange in Cardiff Bay, in memory of a young rugby player who was paralysed in a rugby match and later died.
Paul Andre Blundell - known as PA - was a former Wales under-19 player who died in January five months after suffering spinal injuries while playing in a rugby game.
The Trust PA charity was set up in July and the family is hoping it will work alongside others carrying out spinal research. Ioan and Matthew knew PA well.
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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