Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Irish actor
Wanting to be better: a better actor, a better father.
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Things that I didn’t do during the day.
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View profile →Last night, having dinner with my husband, John, my son, Jonathan, and his girlfriend, Maude.
As a good friend.
A £400 Zandra Rhodes dress for the royal premiere of The Railway Children. More recently, a Wurlitzer jukebox for my husband’s birthday.
When I was 14 I went up for Juliet with Zeffirelli and I was hugely disappointed that I didn’t get that.
When I was very little, I thought it might be possible to be an angel.
Work-wise, joining the National Theatre when I was 21.
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