# The 1997 role that’s left Matthew Rhys “chasing that feeling ever since”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-1997-role-thats-left-matthew-rhys-chasing-that-feeling-ever-since/
- Published: 2026-07-24T04:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-28T22:35:29+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/role-left-matthew-rhys-chasing-feeling-ever-since/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- Rhys’s first role was in 1997’s House of America.
- He says it set a lasting standard for creative fulfilment.
- The experience shaped his approach to later work.

## Summary

Matthew Rhys has said his first professional role, in Marc Evans’s 1997 film House of America, left a lasting impression because he enjoyed the experience so much. The Welsh actor recalled assuming that every job would feel that rewarding, and said he has been pursuing that same sense of fulfilment throughout his career.

The reflection came in a 2013 interview while Rhys discussed his leading role in the spy drama The Americans. By then, he had also appeared in Brothers & Sisters, The Edge of Love, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and a West End production of The Graduate, illustrating the varied career that followed his debut.

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