Kai Owen
Kai Owen ( born September 4, 1975 in Llanrwst, Conwy, North Wales as Matthew Mark Stevens) is a Welsh film and stage actor. Locally known he was different Welsh film and theater roles. He received worldwide fame through the role of Rhys Williams in the television series Torchwood.
Life
Kai Owen comes from Llanrwst in Conwy Valley in North Wales, where his family lives. His father Mark is a GMB union official and his mother Yvonne is a professional cleaning Suns in a British Legion Club. He attended the Watling Street Primary School in Llanrwst and Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy School. Then he attended for three years, the Mountview Theatre School in London, where he graduated in 1998. Owen lived with his wife, the actress Sarah Annis in East Finchley, London. In 2010 she moved with her son to Warwickshire. In 2011, Owen lived for the filming of the fourth Torchwood Miracle Day Season in West Hollywood, California
He ran the 2009 London Marathon for the Children's Cancer Foundation CLIC Sargent and the Virgin London Marathon 2010. He is a supporter of Llandudno Youth Musical Theatre. and several charitable organizations who work for children with cancer and HIV -positive people.
Career
Kai Owen's television career began in the Welsh TV channel S4C and became known as Kev in Tipyn O Stad '. In more than 52 guest appearances in various series in the Welsh television, he was still known as Bob Lewis in Treflan. In 2001 he received his first appearance on British television on BBC One as Buster Edwards in the episode Dog Dago afternoon of Fun at the Funeral Parlour series. It was followed by other appearances in the television series Casualty and Rocket Man.
In 2006 he received the role of Rhys Williams in the British science fiction series Torchwood, a spin -off of the popular BBC series Doctor Who. As Rhys Williams he discussed for Torchwood radio plays as an audio book and radio radio plays.
Filmography
- 2003 Casualty (TV series, episode 17x32 )
- 2005: Rocket Man (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 2006-2011: Torchwood (TV series, 35 episodes)
- 2011: Being Human (TV series, episode 3x01 )
- 2011: Waterloo Road (TV series, episode 7x14 )
- 2012: The Syndicate (TV series, episode 1x04 )
Radio / Audio
- 2007: Ying Tong: A Walk with the Goons as Harry Secombe
- 2009: Torchwood - The Dead Line as Rhys Williams ( radio)
- 2011: Torchwood - The Devil and Miss Carew ( Audiobook)
- 2011: Torchwood - Ghost Train (Audio Book)
- 2011: Torchwood - Department X ( Audiobook)
- 2011: Torchwood - First Born (Audio Book)
- 2012: Torchwood - Army of One (Audio Book)