When it comes to rugby, I'm a Welshman through and through. I'm a huge fan; I've played rugby since I was seven. Unfortunately, I had to quit when I went to drama school because it doesn't really go hand in had with being an actor.

Gwilym Lee

Categorized in : Go Quit School Drama

I don't have a car - I have a beautiful Pinarello bike.

bike car beautiful

I was an annoying schoolboy, always getting into scraps.

schoolboy getting always annoying

You can never... any job you do, you can never think about the bigger picture.

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Savoury food is for main course, and fruit is for pudding.

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I'm a policeman on television but an absolute wuss in real life.

real-life real life television

All we're in control of is what we do day to day on set and how we prepare to do our job each day.

control how job day

I want to keep doing interesting work with interesting people in whatever form that may take, but I want to play the big parts of classical theatre; I want to go on stage and play great Shakespearean roles and, at the same time, do amazing, challenging indie films and comedy, and I want to do it all. I am greedy.

i-am work time people

When you play guest parts, you play your story in a very urgent kind of way.

your story you way

I'm very keen on outdoor things, lots of running and cycling.

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I'm a hoarder.

Yes, I love going to fittings and talking about the history of a costume. For 'Versailles,' a play set in 1919, the costume designer told me that pocket squares had just been introduced. The tango was becoming fashionable in London, and dancers used them to mop their brows. I love to learn fascinating stuff like that.

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When I get a job, I buy one really nice thing to have something to show for it.

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At drama school, a casting director asked the class to walk round the room one at a time, and we had to imagine who they might be. The two before me were described as a doctor and a businessman, but when it came to me, they said homeless person. That was when I thought I'd better do something about my appearance!

doctor walk me time

I have a huge family of friends, and they are all best.

best friends family huge

My parents have always been incredibly supportive, driving me back and forth to Stratford and so on. They realised from an early age that I wouldn't go into medicine because I couldn't do biology and chemistry.

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It's funny because when you're a Welshman living in England, you always get the mickey taken out of you for being Welsh, and then when you go to Wales with an English accent because you were born in Bristol and grew up in Birmingham, they say you're English. You can never win.

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Obviously Gwilym is a very Welsh name! My father is from Maesteg, and my mother's from Abergavenny.

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There are four of us, and we were all born in different cities because my dad worked all around the place. We settled in Birmingham, so I spent most of my time growing up there. We were all given very Welsh names - Geraint, Owen, Rhiannon and Gwilym. My mum's called Cainwen, and my dad is somewhat disappointingly called Tom.

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