Jonathan Rhys Meyers: ‘I am sober 95% of the time and fall down 5% of the time’

The actor on alcohol, Aldous Huxley and his six car accidentsBorn in Dublin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, 41, was spotted by a casting agent as a teenager.

In 2006, he won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Elvis in a CBS mini-series, and from 2007 to 2010 he starred as Henry VIII in The Tudors.

His films include Bend It Like Beckham and Woody Allen’s Match Point.

He stars with the late John Hurt in the award-winning Damascus Cover, in cinemas now.

He is married to the actor-producer Mara Lane and has a son.What is your earliest memory?Forked lightning across the rooftops of the housing estate that I was living in.

I must have been three.

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