Rafe Spall

Rafe Spall is the kind of actor I trust on sight. He moves between a survival horror like The Ritual, a bittersweet comedy like I Give It a Year, and a spectacle like Life of Pi without ever seeming out of place, which tells me his foundation is technique rather than persona. His best actor win at Sitges confirmed what genre fans already knew: he can carry dread and vulnerability in the same frame. His British stage training shows in how attentively he plays off scene partners. I would happily watch him in anything, and I rarely say that about anyone.

Rafe Joseph Spall ( RAYF SPAWL; born 10 March 1983) is an English actor. Spall has appeared in films including The Calcium Kid (2004), Green Street (2005), Kidulthood (2006), The Scouting Book for Boys (2009), Anonymous (2011), Life of Pi (2012), I Give It a Year (2013), X+Y (2014), Swallows and Amazons (2016), The Ritual (2017), and Men in Black: International (2019).

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Name (English)

Rafe Spall

Name (Japanese)

レイフ・スポール

Reading

れいふ・すぽーる

Born

March 10, 1983 (age 43)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Boar

Origin

East Dulwich, United Kingdom

Blood type

Private

Height

Private

Agency

Private

Occupation

actor / stage actor / film actor / television actor

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

Haberdashers' Hatcham College

Awards & achievements

• 2017 Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB

Tags

• actor
• stage actor
• film actor

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.