Iwan Rheon

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“I try not to bring my work home with me. The thing about Ramsay is that because he's actually happy, it's weirdly easier to play than characters that are introverted, carrying all their darkness inside. That makes it more tiring. You kind of let everything out with Ramsay.”

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ALSO KNOWN FOR

Misfits (2010)

The Dirt (2019)

Inhumans (2017)

Barbarians (2021)

Iwan Rheon is a Welsh actor, singer and musician who was born on the 13th of May, 1985. He is best known for his roles as Simon Bellamy in the E4 series Misfits, Ramsay Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones, and Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars in the film The Dirt. He has also appeared in the series Vicious, Riviera, and Inhumans. Rheon was born in Carmarthen, the son of Einir and Rheon Tomos and speaks Welsh as his first language. When Rheon was five years old, his family moved to Cardiff. His older brother, Aled, is a musician and the two performed together on the 2015 single "Rhodd". He attended Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, a Welsh-speaking school, where he began acting in school drama productions at age 17. He was later spotted by a talent scout at a National Eisteddfod of Wales.

In 2008, Rheon was cast as the haunted Moritz Stiefel in the London production of the Tony Award-winning rock musical Spring Awakening. He played this role from January 2009 at the Lyric Hammersmith and continued when the show was transferred to the Novello Theatre, until it closed in May 2009. Rheon earned a What's on Stage Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical, which was eventually won by Oliver Thornton for Priscilla Queen of the Desert. For his performance he won the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical at the 2010 Olivier Awards.

Immediately after Spring Awakening, Rheon was cast in the E4 channel's Misfits, a BAFTA winning programme that was described by 247 Magazine as "a mix of Skins and Heroes". He plays nervous, shy Simon Bellamy, who gains the superpower of invisibility and precognition in season 3. In 2011, he was nominated for a Golden Nymph in the "Outstanding Actor – Drama Series" category for his role in Misfits. In 2013, Rheon was cast as the villainous psychopath Ramsay Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones. In the DVD commentary for the series' third season, producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss mentioned that Rheon previously auditioned for the role of Jon Snow, but lost to Kit Harington, with whom Rheon maintains a close friendship. In 2013, Rheon also played a lead role in the philosophical radio play, Darkside, based on the themes of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon album. In September 2014, Rheon joined the cast of BBC One's Our Girl as Dylan "Smurf" Smith. Then in 2017, it was announced that Rheon had been cast in ABC's Inhumans series. Following this, he played Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars in the 2019 film The Dirt.

Songwriting and singing since the age of 16, Rheon was lead singer in The Convictions until leaving the band to pursue his acting career. In 2010, he recorded his first solo work, Tongue Tied EP, at RAK Studios in London. The EP, a four track release with acoustic guitar and voice, was released digitally in June 2010. He returned to RAK Studios, in April 2011, to record his second EP Changing Times, which was released on 10 October 2011. On 7 April 2013, Rheon released his third EP Bang! Bang! Then in 2015, he recorded his first album, Dinard. A "self-funded collection of emotive folk-pop songs recorded over several years", the album's title refers to Dinard, a town in Brittany, France, where Rheon met his girlfriend Zoë Grisedale.