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I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation.

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I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show.

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I feel like the experience I gained at university has really helped to inform me as far as who I wanted to become as an actor and what I wanted to do.

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University was a chance to people-watch and to mix with people from all various walks of life, which as an actor is a great experience because you get to observe people.

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I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.

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I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.

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I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.

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I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.

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Even though Da Vinci was a genius, it's important to remember he was just a man.

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I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: April 5th, 1981

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