Life and work
Rhys Ifans is a Welsh actor. Born: 22 July 1967. Citizenship recorded in the biographical source: United Kingdom.
Actor · 1967–
Rhys Ifans
Rhys Ifans is a Welsh actor. Born on 22 July 1967, this profile follows Rhys Ifans through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Notting Hill. The location trail reaches The Notting Hill Bookshop, Portobello Road market and William's blue-door house. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
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Notting Hill · The Notting Hill Bookshop
Rhys Ifans is credited as cast member on Notting Hill. The work’s existing location story leads to The Notting Hill Bookshop. Visit London identifies The Notting Hill Bookshop as a setting and inspiration for the film's fictional travel shop. The real shop is on Blenheim Crescent; the film's exterior was filmed nearby and the interior was recreated, so the World keeps inspiration and camera geography distinct.
Notting Hill — credits ↗︎Visit London — The Notting Hill Bookshop ↗︎Kensington and Chelsea — Notting Hill on Film ↗︎
THE PLACES BEHIND THE STORY
A life on the map.
Explore 4 connections. Each connection links to its evidence; outlined circles mark approximate areas, not exact buildings or camera positions.
The Notting Hill Bookshop ↗︎
The real bookshop behind William's Travel Book Company
Visit London identifies The Notting Hill Bookshop as a setting and inspiration for the film's fictional travel shop. The real shop is on Blenheim Crescent; the film's exterior was filmed nearby and the interior was recreated, so the World keeps inspiration and camera geography distinct.
Visit London — The Notting Hill Bookshop ↗︎Kensington and Chelsea — Notting Hill on Film ↗︎
13–15 Blenheim Crescent, London W11 2EE
Open street map ↗︎Portobello Road market ↗︎
Portobello Road makes the romance local
The Kensington and Chelsea film guide maps the Portobello Road exteriors that turn William and Anna's encounter into a neighbourhood story. Unlike the recreated shop interior, this market street remains the living public geography visitors can walk today.
Portobello Road, London W11
Open street map ↗︎William's blue-door house ↗︎
William's blue door becomes a private landmark
The documented Notting Hill location walk places William Thacker's blue-door home at 280 Westbourne Park Road. It is still a private residence, so the map records the public-street view and the film connection without treating the house as an attraction.
280 Westbourne Park Road, London W11 1EH
Open street map ↗︎Rosmead Road gardens ↗︎
The garden sequence keeps Notting Hill intimate
The film-location guide identifies the Rosmead Road garden geography used during William and Anna's walks. Because the gardens are private, the World treats the street and neighbourhood setting as the visitable place and does not promise entry.
Rosmead Road, London W11
Open street map ↗︎IN THE STORY1967-07-22
Born 22 July 1967
Explore a shared connection.
WORKS
Culture, connected.
Follow the work through its real places.
Notting Hill ↗︎
Notting Hill
KEEP EXPLORING
Cities and Worlds.
London ↗︎
From the West End to the streets beyond it: cinema, music and the layers of a changing city.
Notting Hill ↗︎
Seasons: a year passes in one walk up Portobello Road.
PEOPLE IN THE STORY
Creative connections.
Follow collaborators through their work and the real places tied to it.
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