Name: Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keeffe
DOB: July 27, 1977
Where: Dublin, Ireland
Occupation: actor, model, vocalist
Years active: 1994-present
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-Best known roles: Mission Impossible III, Bend It Like Beckham, Match Point, King Henry VIII in the BBC series The Tudors
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-Son of Mary Geraldine Meyers and musician John O'Keeffe
-At 1 year old, moved to Cork and was raised there with 3 younger brothers, Jamie, Alan and Paul, all professional musicians
-When he was 3, his parents divorced
Career
-Expelled from the North Monastery Secondary School at 16 for truancy and spent his time hanging out in pool halls
-Casting agents looking for young Irish boys found Rhys-Meyers at a Cork pool hall, and invited him to the audition of the film War of the Buttons
-In Velvet Goldmine(1998), he played a glam-rock David Bowie-like character
-In Bend It Like Beckham(2002), he played the coach of a girls' football coach
-He is a self-taught singer and guitarist, appearing in various music roles. His first role of singing and playing was that of Brian Slade in Velvet Goldmine.
-He was chosen as the face of Versace men's collection of Autumn/Winter of 2006 and Spring 2007. He is also a model, being signed to Independent Models in London, England
Personal Life
-In May 2010, it was said he was banned from flying on United Airlines because of a mishap from being belligerent and disruptive and the supposed use of a racial slur
-Has been in and out of rehab 3 times for alcohol abuse
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