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Background

  • Born on 6th October, 1973
  • Went to RADA

Roles: Television

  • Essential Poems (To Fall In Love With) (2003): Himself
  • The Forsyte Saga: Phillip Bosinney
  • Man and Boy: Harry
  • an Uptown boy in Westlife's video for Comic Relief's Uptown Girl
  • Warriors (1999): Lt John Feeley
  • Love in the 21st Century (1999): Jack (episode, 'Masturbation')
  • Great Expectation (1999): Pip
  • Hornblower (1998): Title role (Sam West features in The Frogs and the Lobsters episode and Jamie Bamber appears in a couple too.)
  • Poldark: Poldark's son
  • A Relative Stranger
  • Pobblycom (People of the Valley) (Welsh soap opera)

Roles: Film

  • Black Hawk Down (2002): Beale
  • Shooters (2000): Freddy Guns
  • Happy Now (2001): Max Bracchi
  • Another Life: Freddy Bywaters with Natasha Little, playing her lover in a costume drama about Edith Thompson, hanged for murdering her husband.
  • Very Annie Mary: Hob (gay coffee shop owner) playing the boyfriend of real-life flatmate Matt Rhys.
  • 102 Dalmatians (2000): Kevin Sheperd
  • Solomon and Gaenor (1999): Solomon. A twist on Romeo and Juliet, the film won Best Feature Film at this year's Verona Love Screens Film Festival and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
  • Titanic (1998): Fifth Officer Lowe, the gallant one who rows back to fetch Kate.
  • Wilde: John Gray

Snippets

Ioan (pronounced Yoyan) had to give up playing his favourite sport of rugby when he became an actor because the risk of injury was too high. Aw. Welsh is his first language.

The Gallery

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I'm Horny, Horny, Horny, Horny .... (JPG 32 KB)

"If I won an Oscar I'd thank my family in Welsh" - our Ioan

Cufflinks

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