Born on this day 1973 in Llwydcoed, near Aberdare,
Actor - Ioan Gruffudd.
Gruffudd was an accomplished oboist in his teens, playing in the South Glamorgan Youth Orchestra for several years and won prizes for his baritone singing at the National Eisteddfod, while at school. He started his acting career at the age of 13 in a Welsh television film called Austin (1986) and then later moved on to the Welsh language soap opera Pobl y Cwm from 1987 to 1994, which led to him being offered the lead role in the 1996 TV remake of Poldark. He then came to international attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the film Titanic (1997), and as Lt John Beales in Black Hawk Down (2001). However, he is best known in the UK for playing the role of Horatio Hornblower in Hornblower (1998–2003). Gruffudd has also starred as Oscar Wilde's lover John Gray in Wilde (1997), as British anti-slavery abolitionist William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace (2006) and as Tony Blair in W (2008), as well as having roles in the films 102 Dalmations and King Arthur (2004).
Gruffudd is a native Welsh speaker and was inducted into the Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain at the highest rank of druid in the National Eisteddfod in 2003, with the bardic name 'Ioan'.
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