Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Acting • Born 1977-07-27
Biography
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born 27 July 1977) is an Irish actor and model. He is best known for his roles in the films Velvet Goldmine, Bend It Like Beckham, Woody Allen's Match Point and his television role as Elvis Presley in the biographical mini-series Elvis, which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor. In two of his films, Velvet Goldmine and August Rush, he also took over singing parts.
Filmography
82 credits
Bend It Like Beckham
Movie • 2002
Joe
Mission: Impossible III
Movie • 2006
Declan
Velvet Goldmine
Movie • 1998
Brian Slade
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Movie • 2003
Davey
Alexander
Movie • 2004
Cassander
B. Monkey
Movie • 1999
Bruno
August Rush
Movie • 2007
Louis Connelly
97 Minutes
Movie • 2023
Alex
Operation Blood Hunt
Movie • 2024
Murphy
Ride with the Devil
Movie • 1999
Pitt Mackeson
Vanity Fair
Movie • 2004
George Osborne
From Paris with Love
Movie • 2010
James Reece
The Tesseract
Movie • 2005
Sean
Titus
Movie • 1999
Chiron
The Good Neighbor
Movie • 2022
Robert
The Children of Huang Shi
Movie • 2008
George Hogg
6 Souls
Movie • 2010
David / Adam / Wesley
The Emperor's Wife
Movie • 2003
Chamberlain
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Movie • 1999
Nic, aged 16
Mercy
Movie • 2023
Sean Quinn
Prozac Nation
Movie • 2003
Noah
Tangled
Movie • 2001
Alan Hammond
The Maker
Movie • 1997
Josh Minnell
The Governess
Movie • 1998
Henry Cavendish
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Movie • 2013
Valentine
Belle du Seigneur
Movie • 2012
Solal
The Magnificent Ambersons
Movie • 2002
George Amberson Minafer
Another Me
Movie • 2013
John
Match Point
Movie • 2005
Chris Wilton
Stonewall
Movie • 2015
Trevor
Wifelike
Movie • 2022
William
The Tribe
Movie • 1998
Adam
The Clean Up Crew
Movie • 2024
Alex
Octane
Movie • 2003
The Father
Telling Lies in America
Movie • 1997
Kevin Boyle
Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders
Movie • 2022
Kyle
Albert Nobbs
Movie • 2011
Viscount Yarrell
A Film with Me in It
Movie • 2008
Pierce 2
Damascus Cover
Movie • 2017
Ari Ben-Sion / Hans Hoffmann
Disquiet
Movie • 2023
Sam
Ambush
Movie • 2023
Miller
The Rising: 1916
Movie
P. H. Pearse
The Shadow Effect
Movie • 2017
Reese
London Town
Movie • 2017
Joe Strummer
The Disappearance of Finbar
Movie • 1997
Finbar Flynn
The Paralytic
Movie
Carpenter
Michael Collins
Movie • 1996
Collin's Assassin
Killer Tongue
Movie • 1996
Rudolph
Eternal Return
Movie • 2013
Narrator
Eyes in the Trees
Movie
Vince Henway
The 12th Man
Movie • 2017
Kurt Stage
Black Butterfly
Movie • 2017
Jack
The Lion in Winter
Movie • 2003
Philip
A Man of No Importance
Movie • 1994
First Young Man
The Aspern Papers
Movie • 2019
Morton Vint
Holy Lands
Movie • 2019
David
Happy Now
Movie • 2001
Mark Wraith
Awake
Movie • 2019
John Doe
Yakuza Princess
Movie • 2021
Shirô
American Night
Movie • 2021
John Kaplan
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
Movie • 2004
Self
The Survivalist
Movie • 2021
Ben
Hide and Seek
Movie • 2021
Noah Blackwell
Edge of the World
Movie • 2021
Sir James Brooke
The Room Below
Movie
Viper
Movie
Trey 'Wolf' Johnson
The Catch
Movie
Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich
Movie • 2025
Self
Wilde VS England
Movie • 2028
Oscar Wilde
Blood and Dust
Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
Today
TV • 1952
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
The Tudors
TV • 2007
Henry VIII of England
Gormenghast
TV • 2000
Steerpike
Elvis
TV • 2005
Elvis Presley
Dracula
TV • 2013
Dracula/Alexander Grayson/Vlad Tepes
Vikings
TV • 2013
Bishop Heahmund
Roots
TV • 2016
Tom Lea
Samson and Delilah
TV • 1996
14-Year-Old Samson