Rhys Ifans

Actress Anna Friel and actor Rhys Ifans during Ladies Day of the Glorious Goodwood Festival at Goodwood Racecourse, Chichester. INTERVIEWS need to adhere to one rule: be entertaining. Janice Turner writes in the Times of her meeting with Rhy Ifans, once described to me as having very very soft, unworkmanlike hands. We discuss the spare, tight script of Gifted and I ask Ifans if he writes. “Yes, I do,” he says. “Screenplays, short stories, poetry, songs. I draw, I paint. What about you...Read Full Story

The Bottom Line Should you see it? Yes. Why? A taut period piece with exceptional performances, although it does help to have a working knowledge of the time. Director Roland Emmerich's first real "passion project" is based around a controversial theory: did William Shakespeare really write his classic plays? The project is his newest film, Anonymous, written by John Orloff. Anonymous posits Shakespeare was not only a fraud, but a bumbling confidence man who leapt at the opportunity to...Read Full Story

Rhys IfansRhys Ifans (Welsh pronunciation: [r̥ɨːs ˈivans]; born Rhys Owain Evans; 22 July 1967) is a Welsh actor and musician. He is known for his portrayal of characters such as Spike in Notting Hill and Jed Parry in Enduring Love and as a member of the Welsh rock groups Super Furry Animals and The Peth. Ifans also appeared as Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1, and will appear as Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard in the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man.Rhys Ifans...Read Full Story

It's one of the fundamental laws of modern movie making: A superhero film is only as good as its villain. "The Dark Knight'"s Joker? Great. "Thor'"s Loki? Good. "Green Lantern's" grumpy space smog? Yeah, not so much. And "The Amazing Spider-Man'"s version of The Lizard? Well, now we finally have the first photos of him — and he looks pretty darn cool.  Quick refresher course in case you flunked out of Introduction to Spider-Man: The Lizard, who is played by Rhys Ifans, is actually benevolent...Read Full Story

Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, ‘Anonymous’ speculates on a contentious issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds ranging from Mark Twain and Charles Dickens to Henry James and Sigmund Freud, namely: who was the author of the plays credited to William Shakespeare? Experts have debated, books have been written, and scholars have devoted their lives to protecting or debunking theories surrounding the authorship of the most renowned works in...Read Full Story