Jonathan Rhys Meyers has a busy few months coming up. In addition to saying goodbye to his popular Showtime series “The Tudors,” the Irish actor will also premiere his film with John Travolta, “From Paris With Love,” and begin shooting another project with Kevin Bacon in Belfast.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is set to star alongside Kevin Bacon in a new comedy, “Whole Lotta Sole.”

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers loves playing Henry VIII, but is certainly not in love with his character’s diet. The Irish actor and “Tudors” star revealed the king’s “deathly” food choices.

Peter O'Toole, one of Ireland's legendary thespians and bon vivant, is feeling a bit antsy because he cannot find any work.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a dedicated actor, but does not plan to gain weight as he portrays Henry VIII as an older man the final season on "The Tudors."

The countdown has begun for the 61st Emmys which take place in Los Angeles Sunday night and the Irish are well up there this year. Story / 'In Treatment star Gabriel Byrne finally embraces therapy / Click here

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is wisely choosing to stay away from booze. The troubled Irish star was spotted on a hot date at a posh Dublin restaurant, and onlookers say he didn’t touch the sauce.

We here at IrishCentral took on the painstaking job of staring at countless images of attractive Irish men and women to determine the 10 hottest. And now here they are: the Hottest 10 Out of Ireland – enjoy!

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who plays the lusty King Henry VIII in “The Tudors,” insists that having sex with about 20 people is “not so much.”

Talk show host Sherri Shepherd, one of the ladies of ABC’s “The View,” has revealed her “painful” love for Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers rules again in England! The Irish actor who plays King Henry VII in the Showtime series "The Tudors" drew more than 2.3 million loyal subjects to the British channel BBC 2 for the premier of the third series.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers has moved from the luxury of his three bedroom Dublin city center apartment to the more quieter confines of Bray, County Wicklow, as he films the final weeks of “The Tudors” series.

A sense of normalcy seems to have re-appeared in the troubled life of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who was arrested at Charles DeGaulle Airport in Paris last month after a drunken tirade at an airport bar saw him slug a waiter and allegedly threaten other staffers with death.

Nominations for the 61st annual Primetime Emmy Awards have been announced, and Irish and Irish-American names alike are dominating the list. As expected Irish actor Gabriel Byrne, along with his fellow “In Treatment” stars Dianne Wiest and Hope Davis, is nominated for an Emmy.

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Myers seems to have been living up to his reputation as a hard-living fist-throwing thespian as reports seep out of France that "The Tudors" star was involved in an incident with les gendarmes at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris

The new movie "The Hangover" is inspiring a look back at the worst party-fueled moments of some of Hollywood's Irish stars.

With break-out Irish stars such as Saoirse Ronan and Elaine Cassidy popping on to the TV and movie scene, it looks as if the lack of Irish women in Hollywood is soon to be a thing of the past.

It’s been 10 years now since HBO took a chance on a little drama called “The Sopranos” and changed the face of television. Few could gave guessed its success. But nobody would have predicted: that the Irish would come to dominate critically acclaimed drama all over the cable landscape.

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is defending his reputation, claiming he did not have another stint in rehab for alcohol abuse this February.

He may have skipped out on several high-profile U.S. interviews for the new season of “The Tudors” due to an undisclosed “illness,” but

'Tudors' star Jonathan Rhys Meyers has pulled out of a New York press campaign for the hit TV show

The promotional poster for the third season of "The Tudors" has arrived and it’s definitely not your father’s Henry VIII

From Colin Farrell to Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Hollywood has introduced us to some of the sexiest stars alive – and they just happen to be Irish and Irish American.

We here at IrishCentral took on the painstaking job of staring at countless images of attractive Irish men and women to determine the 10 hottest. And now here they are: the Hottest 10 Out of Ireland – enjoy!

JONATHAN Rhys Meyers has landed another plum film role. He'll star in remake of the comic Mandrake the Magician as Mandrake himself. Filming begins early in the New Year in China and the U.

Fresh from the Irish set of the upcoming second season of the Showtime smash The Tudors, Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is trading in his lusty Henry VIII role to show a much more romantic side in August Rush, an unabashedly weepy new love story that dares you not to cry. CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to Rhys Meyers, his co-star Keri Russell, and to the film's Irish director Kirsten Sheridan.

Once inside the legendary hotel they're quickly whisked away from crowds of gawkers and paparazzi that stalk their every move, and then the rounds of interviews take place.

OH dear. Another celeb supposedly rehabbed and fit as a fiddle has wound up on a police blotter again. Guess we should say Garda this time, the Gaelic word for cops.

THEY'LL roll out the red carpet - or perhaps it will be green? - in Dublin next month without fear of picketing writers, so perhaps a few stars hungry for some paparazzi attention will jet over for the fifth annual Irish Film and Television Awards, set for Sunday, February 17 at the Gaiety Theatre.

Nominees were announced last week, and a host of Irish old-timers and new stars are up for honors. Leading the way is the teenage dynamo Saoirse Ronan, the Carlow native who's named as a rising star nominee (alongside the likes of author Cecelia Ahern, but surely she's already risen to great heights?), and best supporting actress nominee for her part in Atonement.

IT was a case of VIP gridlock alert in Dublin last week, and celebrity watchers were the gleeful beneficiaries. A gaggle of stars - Mel, Daniel, Bo, Colin, Charlize to name a few - arrived in the Irish capital for a whole bunch of events that firmly established Dublin as a stop on the celeb map of cool places to be seen.

The photos speak for themselves, right? Many of the notables walked the red carpet at the Irish Film and Television Awards on Sunday night at the Gaiety Theatre, chief among them Mel Gibson, who picked up an award for outstanding contribution to world cinema.

SO disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer paid a hooker for sex? So what, says Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who takes the helm again as King Henry VIII in the second season of the Showtime series The Tudors on March 30.

In a funny interview with New York magazine, the Irish actor says "men will be men" when it comes to sex, no matter how good they may appear to be.

JRM was asked by his interviewer if he had heard about the Spitzer scandal in London, where he's currently based.

LOOKS like Jonathan Rhys Meyers won't have to worry about his next acting gig for a long, long time.

He'll head to Ireland in the next few weeks to start shooting the third season of The Tudors, the series on Showtime about King Henry VIII that's been a big hit for the cable network. "The Tudors is now a fixture for us at Showtime, and we're on our way to completing the entire saga of all six wives of Henry VIII," said a Showtime spokesperson.

CORKMAN Jonathan Rhys Meyers is in Ireland shooting the third series of his Showtime series The Tudors, but it can't be all work and no play when you're back on home turf, right?

JRM and his body double on the hit show have been doing the rounds in Dingle, Co. Kerry, according to the Sunday World. As the day job will soon commence, he thought it'd be a good idea to blow off some steam before the cameras roll.

Actor Barry McGovern is regarded as Ireland's finest interpreter of Samuel Beckett's works. This month he'll perform his hit one-man show I'll Go On at New York's Lincoln Center Festival as part of Gate/Beckett, a program of three Beckett works also featuring Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes. CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to McGovern about the show and the famous company he's keeping.

THERE'S an English king roaming around Ireland these days in full regalia, but he's not some crackpot with delusions of grandeur. Rather, it's Jonathan Rhys Meyers reprising his role as King Henry VIII in the Showtime series The Tudors, which has been filming in the actor's home turf of Dublin for several weeks now.

And though he's been snapped by local paparazzi with packets of cigarettes in his fist on more than one occasion, that seems to be the only vice he has.

It was a good night for the Irish at the 66th annual Golden Globes held at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on January 11. An A-list gathering celebrated the best in TV and film for the year as economic woes were temporarily forgotten while the stars came out to play. Colin Farrell won his first Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for his performance in Martin McDonagh's directorial debut "In Bruges.

Men, would you buy a bottle of cologne from Jonathan Rhys Meyers? The folks at Hugo Boss think so, as they've plucked the Irish star of the Showtime series "The Tudors" to shill for their new scent called Hugo Element. First stop on the pre-Valentine's Day publicity trail? Macy's in New York's Herald Square. And JRM did his job well, dutifully kissing and signing autographs all the ladies he met - provided they forked out $65 for a bottle of Element.

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Irish-American hunk George Clooney recently said that he plans to return to his ancestral home for a summer of motorcycling. "I am doing a motorbike ride in Ireland this summer," he recently told Dublin radio station FM104. "I hear it rains a lot but I've got the perfect outfit!"

Clooney's last film Leatherheads was a bit of a dud, but he may soon be back in the Oscar nomination form he flashed in Michael Clayton.

It was released last winter to good critical notice but not much fanfare at the box office, but maybe, just maybe, "In Bruges," starring Irishmen Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, will be the little film that could for 2008.

The pooh-bahs at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which helms the Golden Globes, certainly think so, as the black comedy/crime caper, created by English-born but thoroughly Irish writer/director Martin McDonagh, received a surprising three nominations for the January ceremony.

Farrell and Gleeson will compete against each other in the best actor in a musical or comedy category, while the film will also compete for best musical or comedy.