Rafe Spall Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Rafe Joseph Spall (born 10 March 1983) is an English actor on both stage and screen. He is perhaps best known for his titular role in Channel 4's Pete Versus Life and his roles in One Day, Anonymous and the upcoming Ridley Scott film Prometheus. Spall was born in King's College Hospital, Camberwell, London, England and is the son of actor Timothy Spall and his wife Shane Spall, the second of three children. Unlike his two sisters who are a primary school teacher and a textile designer respectively, Spall followed in his father's footsteps. Named after the protagonist in The Knight of the... MORE

Rafe Joseph Spall (born 10 March 1983) is an English actor on both stage and screen. He is perhaps best known for his titular role in Channel 4's Pete Versus Life and his roles in One Day, Anonymous and the upcoming Ridley Scott film Prometheus. Spall was born in King's College Hospital, Camberwell, London, England and is the son of actor Timothy Spall and his wife Shane Spall, the second of three children. Unlike his two sisters who are a primary school teacher and a textile designer respectively, Spall followed in his father's footsteps. Named after the protagonist in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a role his father played in the Royal Shakespeare Company and he would later play himself, Rafe always had ambitions to act. Having done badly at his school Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, he left to become an actor having joined the National Youth Theatre but after failing to get into his chosen drama schools he begun his career at the bottom. Spall has frequently collaborated with Edgar Wright appearing in his films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. He had previously appeared in an episode Spaced the series directed by Wright again starring LESS