How Is The Name Ioan Gruffudd Pronounced?

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Yo-wan Griffiths.
Just what you thought it would be, right?  (joking!)

Ioan is the Welsh version of the English "John".  Ioan Gruffudd has been very forthcoming about his desire to preserve his Welsh identity, saying "I'm determined not to lose my name.  It's who I am."

More about the Welsh alphabet, and how to say the words and sounds here.  You have to speak English with a southern English accent, I think, to use that pronunciation guide correctly.

Ioan Gruffudd is a 34 year old Welsh actor, currently living in Los Angeles.  He's had a variety of film and TV roles.  Best known in Britain for his part as Horatio Hornblower in the TV movies of the same name.

I recognise him as one of the characters in the year 2000 movie 102 Dalmatians.

Gruffudd recently shot to prominence with his key role as William Wilberforce in the 2007 movie Amazing Grace, the story of Wilberforce's real-life crusade to end the British slave trade.

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