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My Take
Jonathan Rhys Meyers fascinates me because he plays danger from the inside. Plenty of actors can look menacing; few can make ambition, vanity, and fragility feel like the same emotion, which is what he did in Match Point and his Golden Globe-winning turn as Elvis. There is a rawness to his screen presence that I suspect comes from a genuinely turbulent life, and he has never sanded it down into something safer. I respect that he keeps returning to work after every setback. He may never be a tidy movie star, but tidy was never the point; intensity is, and he has it in surplus.
Overview
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keeffe; 27 July 1977) is an Irish actor. He is known for his roles in the films Michael Collins (1996), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Titus (1999), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Alexander (2004), Match Point (2005), Mission: Impossible III (2006) and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries Elvis (2005), for which he won a Golden Globe Award a…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョナサン・リース＝マイヤーズ
- Reading
- じょなさん・りーす＝まいやーず
- Born
- July 27, 1977 (age 48)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Snake
- Origin
- Dublin, County Dublin, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / singer / film actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
- Trophée Chopard
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.