Inside film, he has got lead roles in The Woodlanders, The Honest Courtesan, Dark City, ''A Knight's Tale, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence''.

In television, he became swell known for his role when a hero, May Ladislaw, in the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch. Within 2004, he appeared around the lead role in the miniseries about the life of King Charles II of England.

around stage, he originated a role of Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, and was nominated for an Olivier Award.

Sewell was innate around Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in South West London and went to the local Orleans Park School, from which he graduated inside 1984. It was clear from either his eccentricities at a school that he would become temperamentally swell suited for swimming a brilliant lead role within many cycle dramas. He late enrolled sustaining distinction at a Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He starred around the TV adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch and took the name part in the BBC's Charles II, alongside Ian McDiarmid.

Selected Filmography
The Illusionist (2006) The Legend of Zorro (2005) Helen of Troy (2003) (TV) ''A Knight's Tale (2001) Bless the Child (2000) Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998) Dark City (1998) Dangerous Beauty (1998) Hamlet (1996) Cold Comfort Farm (1995) Middlemarch (1994) (miniseries) Dirty Weekend'' (1993)