Rufus Sewell



Rufus Sewell (b. 1967) is a British actor who played Ali Baba in Arabian Nights, opposite Creature Shop-created CG dragons.

Sewell made his film debut as a junkie in the 1991 film Twenty-One but first made a real impact on television, as Ladislaw in MiddleMarch and Seth Starkadder in Cold Comfort Farm. More film work followed, as part of the all-star cast in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet and as a leading man in Dangerous Beauty, Dark City (opposite Jennifer Connelly), and In a Savage Land.

As happens to most English actors, a period of Hollywood villains and cads followed, in Bless the Child, A Knight's Tale, The Legend of Zorro, and The Illusionist, with brief respites Tristan + Isolde and Amaxing Grace. In 2008, he played Alexander Hamilton opposite Paul Giamatti in the HBO miniseries John Adams.