Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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.

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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 49)

Origin

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Occupation

actor / singer / film actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

Awards & achievements

• 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
• Trophée Chopard

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jonathan_rhys_meyers/
• Xhttps://x.com/JRM_official
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Rhys%20Meyers
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213567

Tags

• County Dublin
• actor
• singer
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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