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RAFE SPALL (Writer) is one of Britain's rising acting stars. He recently starred in Ridley Scott's sci-fi thriller Prometheus, starring alongside Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, and Noomi Rapace. Prior to that, he was seen in Lone Scherfig's One Day with Anne Hathaway and in Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, starring as William Shakespeare opposite Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, David Thewlis, Joely Richardson, and Mark Rylance.

Spall's other films include Edgar Wright's hits Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz; Menhaj Huda's award-winning independent feature Kidulthood; Ridley Scott's A Good Year, with Russell Crowe; Tom Harper's The Scouting Book for Boys; and Alan Brennan's upcoming Earthbound.

Spall starred on television in Desperate Romantics and Pete Versus Life, the latter in the title role. He recently completed production on the six-part The Shadow Line, written and directed by Hugo Blick with a cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor and Christopher Eccleston.

Spall's telefilm credits include Andrei Konchalovsky's The Lion in Winter, with Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close; Nicholas Renton's A Room with a View, starring opposite Elaine Cassidy; Adrian Shergold's He Kills Coppers; John Alexander's Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me, starring opposite David Walliams; Bill Eagles' Dracula; and Brendan Maher's Wide Sargasso Sea, starring as Edward Rochester opposite Rebecca Hall.

Spall's theatre credits include Just a Bloke and Alaska, at the Royal Court; The Knight of Burning Pestle, at the Young Vic, Michael Grandage's production of John Gabriel Borkman, at the Donmar Warehouse; and, most recently, If There Is, I Haven't Found It Yet, at the Bush.

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