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Rupert Evans (born 1977) is a British actor. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and stars in the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle and 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. 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, 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; as Elliot Howe in Rogue; as Peter Fleming in Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond; and as Brother Godwyn in World Without End. He also starred in ITV's High Stakes sitcom with Richard Wilson, and Paradise Heights, the BBC drama starring Neil Morrissey. Evans is a lead in the Amazon series 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." Evans plays Harry Greenwood, a college professor and the sisters' whitelighter – a guardian angel who protects and guides witches.

Filmography

Film

• The Browning Version (1994; uncredited)
• Crime and Punishment (2002) as student
• Hellboy (2004) as FBI agent John Myers
• Guantanamero (2006) as Ali/Jeb
• Sidney Turtlebaum (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

Television

Videogame

• Q.U.B.E. (2011) as 919 (article available in Wikipedy)

Theatre

• Venetian Heat
• Macbeth
• Sweet Panic (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
• Fear (2013), Bush Theatre

References

1. ^ Eyre, Hermione (2 October 2009). "The Dreamboat: Rupert Evans". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
2. Bishop, Caroline (30 September 2009). "RUPERT EVANS". Official London Theatre. Society of London Theatre. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
3. "Tatler Schools Guide 2013>Milton Abbey School — Alumni". Tatler. Condé Nast Publications. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
4. "The Village> Characters> Edmund Allingham". BBC. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
5. Goodwin, Kyle. "Rupert Evans Interview". Drafted Magazine. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
6. Espinoza, Javier (29 November 2012). "Rupert Evans Revs Things Up a Notch". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
7. Tartaglione, Nancy; Andreeva, Nellie (18 February 2015). "Amazon Orders 5 Original Series Including Man In The High Castle, Mad Dogs". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
8. ^ Ausiello, Michael (28 February 2018). "Charmed Reboot: Rupert Evans Joins CW Pilot as the New (Spoiler)". TVLine. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
9. "Fear". Bush Theatre. Retrieved 11 April 2016.

External links

• Rupert Evans at IMDb

• Living people
• Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
• English male film actors
• English male television actors
• English male stage actors
• English male video game actors
• English male Shakespearean actors
• Royal Shakespeare Company members
• Male actors from London
• People educated at Milton Abbey School
• People educated at Bilton Grange
• People from the Borough of Stafford
• 21st-century English male actors