Matthew Reese Evans is a Welsh actor. He is familiar to Russian viewers thanks to his role as Philip Jennings in the famous television series The Americans (2013–2018), for which he received two Golden Globe nominations and Primetime Emmy nominations.
Also, some of his most famous roles are as follows: he played Kevin Walker in the television series "Brothers and Sisters" (2006–2011), Dylan Thomas in the film "Edge of Love" (2008), Daniel Ellsberg in the movie "The Post" (2017) and starred with Tom Hanks in A Beautiful Day Next Door (2019).
Biography
Matthew Reese was born in Cardiff in 1974 to Welsh parents. He spent all his childhood in Wales, studied in national schools, where they taught in Welsh. Reese studied very well and was awarded a Patricia Rothermere Fellowship in 1993.
While still at school, Matthew began acting in amateur performances. The most important role that prompted him to go the acting path was the role of Elvis Presley in the school musical. After this performance, he realized that he wanted to become an actor.
Therefore, after graduating from school, Reese applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and was admitted to it without any conditions. By the way, his older sister Rachel was educated at the same academy, now she works as a journalist for the BBC.
Matthew began acting in serials back in his student years: these were small roles in the projects "Colombo" (1968-2003 "," Theater of Masterpieces "(1971- …)," House of Amerika (1997). He also went to his homeland to to play in his native language in the Welsh film “Be Brave.” For this work he received the title of Best Actor in the Bafta Cymru (Welsh BAFTA).
Career
Reese's acting life began in a very interesting and unusual way: in 1998 he went to shoot in New Zealand to star in a colonial costume drama for Greenstone television. For the young actor, it was a great experience of teamwork and shooting in an open area. There were many difficulties, but nothing hardens an actor more than difficulties at the very beginning of your career, when you have not yet firmly decided whether you need this profession.
Matthew coped with all the difficulties, he was noticed and appreciated by professionals from the cinema, and in 1999 he already got the role of Demetrius in the film "Titus the Ruler of Rome" (1999). Here, he also received great acting and on-set interaction lessons from celebrities such as Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange, who starred.
Since then, his career has quickly taken off: every year he received offers from several directors and was often involved in several projects at the same time. To date, there are more than fifty films in his filmography, and many films from this list have become popular and beloved by viewers around the world.
The best films in Reese's portfolio are considered the films "Colombo likes the nightlife" (2003), "Scapegoat" (2012), "The Kidnappers' Club" (2002), "The Lost World" (2001) and "Titus - Ruler of Rome" (1999) … Best TV Shows: BoJack Horseman (2014- …), Archer (2009), Brothers and Sisters (2006) and The Americans (2006-2011). In the last two series, Reese was also a director. As a director, he created the video "Goode Fellowes".
Reese also has experience in producing films, which he is going to repeat, and he is also involved in editing and dubbing some of the films. Therefore, we can say that in the field of the film industry, Matthew Reese has become a real all-rounder.
The 2000s were the most creative and filled with work for the actor. In 2000, he starred in the drama series Metropolis. This series describes the life of people who are imprisoned within a huge city. Everyone has their own problems, joys and sorrows. In these people, viewers recognized themselves, so the series was very popular.
During this period he also worked in the theater, where he managed to get famous English actors as partners. And in the cinema he was lucky with partners - they were Brittany Murphy, Hayden Christensen, Tim Roth, Mischa Barton and others.
During his acting life, Reese starred in Ireland, Czechoslovakia, New Zealand. And after he landed the role of lawyer Kevin Walker on ABC's Brothers and Sisters, the actor moved to Santa Monica. The show was a huge success and endured for five seasons, ending in 2011.
Reese is particularly adept at playing historical characters, and in 2012 he appeared in a dramatic adaptation of Charles Dickens' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which remained unfinished after his death in 1870.
In 2012, Reese reprized a double role in the new film adaptation of Daphne du Mourier's "The Scapegoat". In the same year, Reese was cast as Jimmy in the Broadway Theater, in John Osborne's Look in Anger, and in various plays at the Laura Pels Theater, Harold Theater and Miriam Steinberg Theater.
At times, the actor had to combine theater and cinema, managing to play interesting roles both there and there. So, in 2013, Reese starred in the television adaptation of the novel by P. D. James in Death Comes to Pemberley as Jane Austen's character Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Personal life
Reese met his future wife on the set of the American TV series. His co-star was Kerry Russell, a beautiful and talented actress. Reese and Russell played in this series of spouses who were secret agents of the KGB.
After filming, they became a real husband and wife. In 2016, they had a son. Matthew and Kerry continue to act, they have a lot of film work in the plans.
