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Ioan Gruffudd was born in October 1973 in Llwydcoed, Aberdare, the eldest of three children to his parents Peter and Gillian Gruffudd, both of whom were teachers.

A few years after he was born the family moved to Cardiff, where Gruffudd's grandparents had previously run an amateur dramatics society.

Gruffudd's first acting break came in Austin (1986), a BBC Cymru Wales television film written by Hazel Williams.

From 1987 to 1994 he acted in the Welsh-language soap opera Pobl y Cwm, but left at the age of 18 to enrol at Rada to formally train as an actor.

In his final year at the Academy Gruffudd was cast as George (Jörgen) Tesman in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, which in part led to him winning the role of Jeremy in the 1996 remake of the BBC's Poldark series - his first major English-language role.

The following year he played John Gray in the film Wilde, which starred Stephen Fry.

Gruffudd's star was by now firmly in the ascendant, and soon afte