Biography

He obtained a first class degree in Drama at Birmingham University before spending two years, from 1994 to 1996, at the National Youth Music Theatre - he plays guitar and cello - and also working with London Kensington Sinfonia.

On 7 August 2011, swam the 16 miles long Lake Zurich Swim race to raise funds for Guy's and St. Thomas's Neonatal Unit, in memory of Alfie Blacksell.

Plays the guitar and the cello, and has worked with the London Sinfonia.

Attended the University of Birmingham with Matthew Goode

Is a son of a consultant physician and a charity worker, and has a younger brother and sister.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown... Please don't dig them out!

I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.

At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer 'Quincy Jones', who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.

I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp.