“I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but I am convinced that the Stratfordian William Shakespeare was not. My feeling is that it was an amalgamation of many writers, in the same way that most films are a collaborative endeavor.”

Welsh actor and musician

Rhys Ifans is a Welsh actor and musician known for film and television roles across the late 1990s and 2000s, and for later appearances in major fantasy and superhero productions. He was born Rhys Owain Evans. He appeared in Twin Town, Dancing at Lughnasa, Notting Hill, Kevin & Perry Go Large, Enduring Love, and The Boat That Rocked. He also played Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Dr. Curt Connors, also known as Lizard, in The Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Grigori Rasputin in The King’s Man. On television, he has played the Chief Designer in Star City, Hector DeJean in Berlin Station, Mycroft Holmes in Elementary, and Otto Hightower in House of the Dragon.