Fantastic Four, Forever,
Titanic, Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Welsh-born actor, Ioan Gruffudd, began acting at age 11 in a Welsh language soap opera called Pobol Y Cwm (People of the Valley) for the BBC in Wales. He went on to study at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, when, at age 23, he was cast as Pip in a BBC adaptation of Great Expectations.
Ioan was introduced to an American audience when he played 5th Officer Harold Godfrey Lowe aboard James Cameron's Titanic in 1997. Soon after, he was cast as the title role in Horatio Hornblower, an adaptation of C.S. Forester novels for A&E. In 2000, Ioan played Kevin Shephard in 102 Dalmatians opposite Glenn Close reprising her role as the villainous Cruella de Vil. He played Lt. Beales in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down and Dan Blakely in the horror thriller The Gathering alongside Christina Ricci. Having moved to Los Angeles in 2003, he immediately landed the part of Lukas Gold, one of the leading roles in the CBS drama Century City, alongside Viola Davis. Later that year, he appeared as Lancelot opposite Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Hugh Dancy, and Joel Edgerton in Antoine Fuqua's epic retelling of King Arthur for Disney, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
After playing the lead role of William Wilberforce in Michael Apted's Amazing Grace alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, Ioan became internationally known when he was cast as Dr. Reed Richards aka Mr. Fantastic in the Fantastic Four and The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer for 20th Century Fox. Both films grossed over $600 million dollars worldwide. In 2011, Ioan showed his comedic side when he appeared as the Wetwork Guy, alongside Jason Bateman, Jason Sudekis, and Charlie Day in Seth Gordon's hilarious Horrible Bosses.
His other film credits include the quirky comedy The TV Set, co-starring David Duchovny and Sigourney Weaver, the British drama The Kid, directed by Nick Moran, and the fantasy adventure The Secret of Moonacre, alongside Tim Curry. He also voiced the title character in the animated film Agent Crush, was featured alongside Julia Roberts and Ryan Reynolds in Fireflies in the Garden and starred in the tragic love story Solomon & Gaenor, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Foreign Language Film. In addition to his expertise in drama and comedy, Ioan displayed his musical proficiency in 2013 with a guest starring arc on Glee, where he appeared as Paolo San Pablo and performed songs and scenes from Funny Girl, with Lea Michele. In 2017 Gruffudd débuted his new male lead of Dr Andrew Earlham, a respected surgeon and widowed father of a teenage son, in ITV's new 6-part thriller miniseries, Liar. In 2018, he was cast as forensic pathologist Dr. Daniel Harrow in the Australian TV show Harrow airing on the ABC.
Apart from television and film work, he starred in the music video of Westlife's version of "Uptown Girl" (2001) alongside Claudia Schiffer.
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