Rufus Sewell is an English actor. Rufus Sewell was educated at Orleans Park School, a state comprehensive school in Twickenham, which he left in 1984, followed by West Thames College, where a drama teacher sent him to audition for drama school.

Rufus Sewell later enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He has been married twice. His first wife was Australian fashion journalist Yasmin Abdallah. They married in 1999 and divorced a few months later.

Rufus Sewell and second wife, scriptwriter and producer Amy Gardner, whom he married in 2004, have a son, William Douglas. They separated in 2006 and have since divorced. Rufus Sewell has said: My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident!