Rhydian is a highly talented and experienced Welsh stage, screen, and television actor and voice artist.  He is a native of Mid-West Wales and is fluent in Welsh language.  He has a mastery of all Welsh accents including South, North West, Swansea, South West, North East and Cardiff.  He also speaks English in perfect RP as well as a host of other UK regional and US accents. 

Rhydian’s voice work includes commercials for Land Rover, Tesco, The Royal Marines, the British Army, Cancer Research, Now Magazine (TV and radio), LG Mobile, Vauxhall (English and Welsh languages), and several COI public awareness campaigns for Anti-Smoking (Welsh accented English and Welsh language), Don’t Drive Tired (Welsh language) and Flu Jabs (Welsh language). He’s voiced Panasonic sponsorship idents on National Geographic Channel, and a corporate narration for ENSO.

He’s also voiced an audio guide for the V&AMuseum, and has ADR/lip-sync experience following his work on Asylum.  He has also co-presented UNTRO, a children’s programme on BBCRadioinvolving lots of storytelling bringing characters to life.

He recently completed filming Leni Leni alongside Valeriya Kozhevnikova and Hildegard Neil (Rosebud/Solus Films - currently screening at Cannes Film Festival 2016), and can also be seen as Mr Griffin alongside Natasha Richardson, Hugh Bonneville and Sir Ian McKellan in Patrick Marber’s Asylum (Paramount Pictures).  Additionally he’s played Jack opposite Alessandro Nivola and Anna Friel in Goal!and Goal – Living The Dream (Icon), Nathan opposite Dustin Hoffman in Last Chance Harvey, and Kevin alongside Martin Freeman in the improvised comedy Nativity (BBCFilms / EOne).

Rhydian’s TV credits include Dr Robert Thomas opposite Sanjeev Bhaskar in the BAFTA Winning The Indian Doctor (BBC1, series regular), Jake Butterworth in Doctors (BBC), and Darryl Kimble opposite Alan Davis in David Renwick’s BAFTA Winning Jonathan Creek (BBC), Tarquin alongside Stephen Fry in Absolute Power (BBC), and The Boss in Making Slough Happy (BBC).  Other credits include Tim in House opposite Kelly McDonald and Miriam Margoles, Fay/Anthony in A Mind To Kill(Fiction Factory/Sky), Gary Beddows in Mile High (Hewland Int./Sky), Norton in Married Single Other (Left Bank Pictures / ITV), Mr Bond in Crash (BBC/ Red Planet), Harry in Jack & Jill, Rob in Belonging (BBC),and Dan inTrail Of Guilt (BBC).

He also has a number of TV credits in Welsh language, including Robin Hughes (series regular) in Pobol Y Cwm (BBCWales), Llion in Pianissimo (Apollo / S4C), and Prys in A470 (Granada/S4C) and as a series regular in Caerdydd (Fiction Factory/S4C).

Extensive stage appearances include Servant to Angelo in Complicite’s Measure For Measure (The National Theatre, Dir Simon McBurney), Security alongside Harold Pinter in Look Europe (The Almeida), Gerry Evans opposite Laura Donnelly’s Chrissy in Brian Freil’s Dancing At Lughnasa (The Lyric, Belfast), and in the dark comedy The Linzee Way (Dir Lisa Palfery). Other credits include Danilo in Dimetos (The Gate), Myshkin (lead) in Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot (Riverside Studios), and Oh My Goth (Tivoli’s Glassalen Theatre, Copenhagen).  He also performed as Jean (lead) in Strinberg’s Miss Julie (Latchmere), which received praise from The Guardian (UK) review: ‘Rhydian Jones is absolutely compelling’.