Ioan Gruffudd

He has also starred in 102 Dalmatians, ITV's adaptation of The Forsyte Saga, Black Hawk Down, and King Arthur. Howard later appeared in such films as Mutiny on the Bounty, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Battle of Britain, Mary, Queen of Scots, Pope Joan, Ludwig, A Doll's House, Ryan's Daughter and Von Ryan's Express. Next, he played Pip in the BBC production of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. His first major role was in Brief Encounter in 1945, and starred in The Third Man and Sons and Lovers, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Forester novels. Born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith in Cliftonville, Kent, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and acted on the London stage for several years before World War II. He later got his best-known role as Horatio Hornblower in the ITV production of the C.S. Trevor Howard (September 29, 1913 - January 7, 1988) was a British actor.

After playing Oscar Wilde's gay lover in Wilde in 1997, he got his first international role as Fifth Officer Lowe in Titanic. His won his first major English language role a few years later in the 1996 TV remake of Poldark. Aged 18 he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Gruffudd started his acting career at the age of 14 in the Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm (People of the Valley).

He has two siblings – a brother, Alun, who is two years younger and a sister, Siwan, who is seven years younger than him. Ioan Gruffudd (pronounced YO-an GRIFF-ith) is a Welsh actor, born in Cardiff, Wales, UK on 6 October 1973. His parents, Peter and Gillian Gruffudd, were teachers.