Jay Rodan Movies and Career Information

Jay Rodan is a British actor, writer and director. Rodan was born in Durban, South Africa to a Scottish father and South African mother of Scots, Dutch and French descent. His childhood was spent moving between South Africa, India, Britain and Canada. Following South Africa's historic election Rodan returned there, publishing poetry and working as a performance artist at the renowned Flat Gallery. Returning to London, he initially busked in Covent Garden and outside Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. He was signed by Aleen Keshishian at ICM in New York and in his first film he played the villain opposite Samuel L. Jackson in Kasi Lemmons' New York City-set The Caveman's Valentine (2001). He then starred in the Bernardo Bertolucci-produced "Triumph of Love" opposite Mira Sorvino and Ben Kingsley. In 2003 he starred as Marc Anthony in TNT's production of Julius Caesar with Christopher Walken and Richard Harris. He played a hearing-impaired artist involved with Jeremy Irons in Franco Zeffirelli's film about opera diva Maria Callas. He is well known for his role as Paolo Bardosa on the fifth season of Footballers' Wives in which he played a Brazilian superstar footballer manipulated by Joan