Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd has been speaking about dealing with the very public break up of his marriage from Alice Evans. He said being in showbusiness from the age of 11 had been a help.
In an interview with the Radio Times, he said that dealing with the public interest was part of being an actor. He started his television acting career at a young age on a Welsh television film, Austin, and later moved on to the Welsh language soap opera Pobol y Cwm from 1987 to 1994.
Speaking to the magazine as part of the publicity for his new ITV show Reunion, he said: "It’s experience of having lived in the public eye from an early age. I was in the Welsh language soap opera Pobol y Cwm from the age of 11, so people knew who I was in that community. You can’t train for that scrutiny as an actor, but it’s been part and parcel of what it is to be an actor. It’s a contract."
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In August, the actor has been granted a three-year restraining order against Alice, following their split in March last year. The order comes after the 49-year-old actor had previously won a temporary restraining order against his 54-year-old former spouse in February after he claimed to have been inundated with messages from her.
He has recently been starring in new drama on ITV's new streaming service ITVX called The Reunion, adapted from Guillaume Musso's bestselling novel of the same name aka La Jeune Fille et la Nuit.
"The Reunion tells the story of Vinca Rockwell who went missing one freezing night as her campus was paralyzed by a snowstorm. Several years later, three former friends bound by a tragic secret and the disappearance of their friend reconnect and try to find the truth about what happened the night Vinca went missing.
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