Name	Rafe Spall
Height
Naionality	English
Date of Birth	10-March-1983
Place of Birth	East Dulwich, London, UK
Famous for	Acting

Rafe Spall is an English actor on both stage and screen. He is perhaps best known for his titular role in Channel 4's Pete Versus Life and his roles in One Day, Anonymous, and the Ridley Scott film Prometheus. He recently played in the 2012 film Life of Pi.

Spall was born in King's College Hospital, Camberwell, London, England, and is the son of actor Timothy Spall and his wife Shane Spall, the second of three children. Unlike his two sisters, who are a primary school teacher and a textile designer respectively, Spall followed in his father's footsteps. Named after the protagonist in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a role his father played in the Royal Shakespeare Company and he would later play himself, Rafe always had ambitions to act. Having done badly at his school Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, he left to become an actor having joined the National Youth Theatre but after failing to get into his chosen drama schools he began his career at the bottom. Spall is a patron of the Actors Centre.

Spall has frequently collaborated with Edgar Wright appearing in his films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. He had previously appeared in an episode of Spaced the series directed by Wright again starring Frost and Pegg. Spall was also featured in Wright's segment in the 2007 Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez film Grindhouse. In 2007 he performed for the first time with his father in the ITV adaption of A Room with a View playing father and son. Spall claims to have always struggled with his weight, going up to 18 stone (114 kilograms), but he claimed to have been given so many character parts that he attempted to slim down, losing over five stone (32 kilograms). From 2004 to 2006 he was in a relationship with his The Rotter's Club co-star Alice Eve. In 2007 he dated Alexandra Mann, a designer and stylist. Having lived in London Fields, he now lives in West Kensington with his wife, actress Elize du Toit having been set up on a blind date with her. They married in 2010. In 2011 their first child Lena was born.