Matthew Rhys is a Welsh actor. His film credits include The Edge of Love, Titus, and Watchmen Chapter I. Rhys has also appeared in several television series, such as Brothers and Sisters, Death Comes to Pemberley, and The Americans, for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2018. He has also starred in Perry Mason and the Apple Original series Extrapolations and Widow's Bay, for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2026, also winning the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie for The Beast in Me the same year.