{"id":792062,"date":"2026-10-04T21:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792062\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:54:12","slug":"matthew-rhys-wins-best-actor-for-the-beast-in-me-at-bafta-cymru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792062\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Rhys wins Best Actor for The Beast in Me at Bafta Cymru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Rhys has continued his fine form this awards season after being announced as the Best Actor at the Bafta Cymru Awards ceremony.<\/p>\n

The actor made history last month when he became the first person<\/a> to win two lead acting prizes in one night at the Emmy’s.<\/p>\n

Presenter Carol Vorderman said she was “humbled and escited” to receive an award for outstanding contribution, while Lauren Evans took home an award for her contribution to the film I Swear.<\/p>\n

Lee Walters, Bafta Cymru chair, congratulated the nominees last month and said “each is a testament to the creativity, skill and dedication of the people working across Wales’ screen industries, both in front of and behind the camera”.<\/p>\n

Rhys was presented the award at the ICC Wales, in Newport, where the event has been held since 2024.<\/p>\n

His performance in The Beast in Me<\/a> earned him his second Bafta Cymru, 29 years after his first for his role in the Welsh-language film Bydd yn Wro, or Be Brave.<\/p>\n

Gabrielle Creevy won her second Best Actress award and Y Crwydryn took home the Single Documentary award, with Rhys Edwards winning Director Factual for the same show.<\/p>\n

Mari Grug won her first Bafta Cymru award for presenter in Mari Grug: Yn dydd Ar Y Tro.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Y Golau: Dwr won two awards and Matthew Barry won Best Writer for The Guest.<\/p>\n

Amour a Mynydd won the Entertainment Programme award and Stori’r Iaith received the Factual Series award. <\/p>\n

Burton<\/a> won the Feature\/Television Film award and the Short Film award was won by Gofod Ymennydd \u2013 Brain Space and the Children’s Programme went to Itopia.<\/p>\n

In total, 17 awards were presented across the evening as well as two Bafta Outstanding Contribution awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Rhys has continued his fine form this awards season after being announced as the Best Actor at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}