Rupert Evans

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Rupert Evans (born 9 March 1977^[2]) is a British actor. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and starred in the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle and currently in the CW's Charmed series.

Early life[]

Evans was brought up on a farm in Stowe-by-Chartley, Staffordshire, England, near Stoke-on-Trent.^[3] Evans was educated at Bilton Grange School, a boarding independent school in the village of Dunchurch, near the market town of Rugby in Warwickshire in the West Midlands region of England, followed by Milton Abbey School,^[1][4] a boarding independent school in the village of Milton Abbas, near the market town of Blandford Forum in Dorset in South West England, and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, at the time based in South Kensington in London.

Career[]

Early in his career, Evans appeared in the drama Crime and Punishment starring John Simm, and North and South starring Richard Armitage.

Evans' first major film role was as FBI Agent John Myers in director Guillermo del Toro's 2004 adaptation of the Mike Mignola comic book Hellboy. He also appeared in Agora, which was filmed in Malta with Rachel Weisz and Max Minghella.

Evans has starred as Edmund Allingham in the BBC's The Village;^[5] as Elliot Howe in Rogue; as Peter Fleming in Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond;^[6] and as Brother Godwyn in World Without End.^[7] He also guest-starred in ITV's High Stakes sitcom with Richard Wilson, and Paradise Heights, the BBC drama starring Neil Morrissey. Evans was a lead in the Amazon series^[8] The Man in the High Castle.

In 2014, Evans starred in the horror film The Canal, and in 2016 had a supporting role in the horror film The Boy.

In February 2018, Evans was cast in a regular role for The CW's fantasy drama series Charmed, a reboot of the 1998 series of the same name. The reboot "centers on three sisters in a college town who discover they are witches."^[9] Evans plays Harry Greenwood, a college professor and the sisters' whitelighter – a guardian angel who protects and guides witches.^[9]

Filmography[]

Film[]

• The Browning Version (1994; uncredited)
• Crime and Punishment (2002) as student
• Hellboy (2004) as FBI agent John Myers
• (2006) as Ali/Jeb
• (2008) as Gabriel
• Agora (2009) as Synesius
• The Incident (aka Asylum Blackout, 2011) as George
• Elfie Hopkins (2012) as Mr. Gammon
• The Canal (2014) as David
• Tank 432 (2015) as Reeves
• The Boy (2016) as Malcolm
• American Pastoral (2016) as Jerry Levov
• The Doorman (2020) as Jon Stanton

Television[]

Videogame[]

• (2011) as 919 (article available in Wikipedy)

Director[]

Theatre[]

• Macbeth^{[citation needed]}
• (2003)
• Breathing Corpses (2005)
• Romeo and Juliet (2006) as Romeo
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (2007) Donmar Warehouse, London & tour
• Life Is a Dream (2009) Donmar Warehouse
• (2013),^[10] Bush Theatre

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