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Jonathan Rhys Meyers was born as Jonathan Michael Francis O’Keefe by the end of July 1977 in the capital of Ireland. In 1978 his family moves to the Cork County, and two years later, his father dumps his family and leaves Jonathan and three of his younger brothers on the shoulders of his mother. Jonathan has a really difficult childhood which was always followed by escapes from home and excluding from school, at the age of 16 he got the final excluding from the school. A little time after this event he was invited to the audition for the project “The Button’s War”, but he didn’t have the role unfortunately. Though in the next movie he was more lucky, as he gets a role in advertising commercial, and a little time later takes place his first cinema debut in the movie “Love with no name” in 1994. After starting the performance he takes a pen name Rhys Meyers in the honor of his mother whose last name before marriage was Meyers. He becomes extremely popular after performing the role of a glam rock musician Bryan Slade in the drama by Todd Heinz “The Velvet Goldmine” in 1998. Also he performed with John Travolta in the movie “From Paris with Love”. And in 2008 was released the show “Tudors” in which he gets the main role. In June 2011 he gets to the hospital after committing a trial to suicide. The actor took a mortal quantity of pills in his house in London after which he was found by his neighbors’ incontinence. The doctors were able to save him.

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Here you can learn about the movies Jonathan Rhys Meyers acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Alexander - Cassander	$155M	2004	$13.7M	$34.3M
Mission: Impossible III - Declan	$150M	2006	$47.7M	$133M
From Paris with Love - James Reece	$52M	2010	$8.16M	$23.3M
The Children of Huang Shi - George Hogg	$40M	2008	$55.8K	$1.03M
Ride with the Devil - Pitt Mackeson	$35M	1999	$64.2K	$631K
August Rush - Louis Connelly, Soundtrack (performer: "Break", "Moondance", "This Time", "Something Inside")	$30M	2007	$9.42M	$31.7M
Michael Collins - Collins' Assassin (as Jonathan Rhys Myers)	$28M	1996	$187K	$11M
Vanity Fair - George Osborne	$23M	2004	$6.27M	$16.1M
Shelter - David/Adam/Wesley	$22M	2010
Match Point - Chris Wilton	$15M	2005	$529K	$23.1M
Octane - The Father	$11.5M	2003
Prozac Nation - Noah (as Jonathan Rhys-Meyers)	$9M	2001
Telling Lies in America - Kevin Boyle	$4M	1997	$11.5K	$252K
La lengua asesina - Rudolph	$4M	1996
The Loss of Sexual Innocence - Nic, aged 16	$4M	1999	$50.4K	$400K
Velvet Goldmine - Brian Slade, Soundtrack ("Sebastian", "The Ballad of Maxwell Demon", "Baby's On Fire", "Tumbling Down")		1998	$302K	$1.04M
The Governess - Henry Cavendish		1998	$57.8K	$3.9M
The Maker - Josh Minnell		1997
The Tribe - Adam		1998
The Disappearance of Finbar - Finbar Flynn		1996