• Matthew Goode on Jonathan: He has amazing lips, he's basically a woman and a lovely fella with a classic Irish Charm... and a great bum!

• Jonathan rammed into Scarletts lip whilst filming a scene in Match Point, He felt bad so the next day he send her some flowers.

• Jonathan can play the guitar and Irish flute.

• Jonathan loves Thin Lizzie, likes Kings of Leon, ak shake a herblious, asavosly (indian singer), Postal Service [taken from an Elvis interview jrm is wearing a green jacket]

• Jonathan bought his mam a house with his first big paycheck

• Jonathan has stated he wouldn't have filmed up to Elvis's Vegas years.

• Jonathan was sent to a ballet teacher to do the Elvis moves, however this didn't work out quite as well as planned!

• He has previously stated he would choose a good director over a good script!

• Jonathan was so worried about seeing the Match Point film at Cannes, he asked to see a privite screening a few days before.

• On the boot camp for Alexander the actors all had to eat dried apricots, nuts in the morning, no fry-ups.

• Jonathan loves going back to his home town of Cork, but rarely has the time to go back. He mainly lives in London, or out of a suitcase!

• Jonathan said (watching a moving billboard of him as Elvis) that it was quite strange seeing himself on a big video billboard in NYC

• After his month long trip to Japan in 2003, Jonathan Would like to go back there and do snowboarding.

• Jonathan has been "The King"

• Jonathan was nominated for an Emmy for Elvis.

• Jonathan has travelled to Bangkok before filming "the Tesseract". He was only 17 and his lasting memory is of passing out in the airport before coming home because he had eaten too many chocolates!

• Jonathan says it was very strange character in the Tesseract, It was a strange film.

• Jonny says "its a hell of a lot easier [singing in Elvis] than lip synching [to the songs]"

• While filming Elivs, Reena (Jonny's girlfriend) hated his southern accent, therefore everytime he spoke to her he had to speak in his Irish accent

• Jonathan explained that people at home [Ireland] giggled as if was telling them a joke [about playing the role of Elvis] then when they found out he was serious, it was like a horror.

• Elvis' sneer is actually the oppisite side to Jonathan's however, he felt it would look less natural to try to change it.

• Jonathan had to reshoot the scene sitting on the bed with Priscilla explaining why he didn't find her attractive after the child was born because Priscilla Presley in a preview didn't like it.

• Jonathan has worked with Colin Farrell twice, once in Alexander and once when he was 18, it was for the film Finbar where Colin had a bit part.

• Jonathan spent a lot of his time off (when filming Elvis) listening to Elvis' music, especially his gospel stuff

• Jonathan hates peanut butter can't stand it, horrible stuff.

• Jonathan got a private night time tour around Graceland

• Jonathan can't stand Poca Loca! -actually Jonathan said it wrong in a tv interview its actually "El Pollo Loco" -and it's a fast food chicken chain :D -thanks Vanessa for pointing this out!!!

• Jonathan loves flying although he wishes you could smoke on planes.

• He lists his favourite actors as Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris and Richard Burton.

• Jonathan loves doing Photo Shoots with David Bailey

• Jonathan once banished his cell [mobile] phone - the social lifeline of the western world - to the depths of the River Shannon [river in Ireland] stating at the time "If someone want me enough, they'll find me" He appears to have since replaced it!

• Jonathan smokes Marlboro's cigarettes, although he says he should quit because of his weak heart.

• Keira Knightly describes Jonathan as "a completely beautiful, vulnerable human being" (from the Sunday Times)

• He also once stated that his idea of happiness is to be in a log cabin in the woods in some snowy countryside."(from Nylon Mag)

• Once Filming was finished on the set of Match Point, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers was presented with a biography of Byron, beautifully wrapped, with a hagiographic inscription along the lines of 'You are a great romantic figure - the next Lord Byron'

• He feels his most defining moment was 'the rape scene I did in I'll sleep when i'm dead'

• When Jonathan was filming the rape scene, he was in alot of pain... because of a stomach ulcer he later had removed!

• Jonathan was one of the few people who actually got the full script for Match Point

• Jonathan has a few scars, one in the middle of his head from his childhood days. In 2003, he had surgery for an ulcer above his belly button.

• Jonathan has won won a Golden Satellite award, Best Actor Award for his portrayal of George Amberson Minafer in "The Magnificent Ambersons" in 2002, The Chopard Trophy Award for Best Newcomer at the Cannes Film Festival, and is nominated for a Golden Globe award from Elvis Mini-series.

• Jonathan has sung on the soundtrack to Velvet Goldmine (tracks 15 'Baby's On Fire' and track 18 'Tumbling Down') and also sang two song in Elvis, whilst messing about the studio "That's Alright (Mama)" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky"

• Jonathan lernt to fly a chopper for his character Declan in Mission Impossible Three. He did have a poilet with him all the time. Though he's not flown another one since. And no they wouldn't let him fly though the Windmill as its far too dangerious for an actor, so they used a stunt guy to do it. -NEW

• Jonathan has just signed a 6 month deal to advertise Hugo Boss and Versace fragences on Billboards. -NEW

• When Jonny was asked about this years world cup (2006) he replied: Well i've just heard Rooney's just broke his foot. My Girlfriend is English, I'm Irish, I don't have an opinnion on the world cup this year, I've got an opionnion on the Irish team, but I don't on the World cup. (Ireland arn't in it!) -NEW

Once again:
Please do not take these facts without asking me, as I sat through hours of videos and read articles to find these facts -Thank you!