A life less ordinary…

Rufus lost his dad

(an Australian artist and film animator) when he was only 10. It was ‘horrible,’ he recalled. ‘I didn’t get a chance to find out what he was really like’. Possibly as a result of the trauma, his teens were difficult

– a blurof drinking and shoplifting – turned around only when his school drama teacher encouraged him to audition for the Central School of Speech and Drama. A pin- up by the Nineties, he dated Kate Winslet and Helena Bonham Carter before marrying Australian journalist Yasmin Abdallah in 1999.

The marriage ended in divorce just one year later.

Soon after, he fell for producer

Amy Gardner, and they had a son, Billy in 2002. They too married but split in 2006. For the past 10 years, Rufus has been in a relationship with Ami Komai with whom he has a daughter, Lola.