Biography

Born West Africa . Lived in Ireland aged 3-9 . Convent school . Lied in First Confession aged 6 . Sent to satisfactorily brutal boarding school in County Meath . Aged 9 moved to England . Monastery school till 18 . Still dodgy in Confession . Aged 13 decided he wanted to be an actor . Didn't own up to this until he was 25 . University at Cambridge . Footlights . Law School in London . Toured Australia in a Footlights Revue Botham The Musical . A year in Noises Off at the Savoy Theatre . Big advertising contract to sell Guinness . Thought this acting game was easy . Finally came out to his parents about chosen profession and wrote to the Passport Office . Held a spear and said one line at the National Theatre in Frances de La Tour's St Joan . Thought this acting game was not what it was a year ago . Married Victoria Threlfall, a painter . Honeymoon in Central America . Salmonella . Left two stone in Guatemala . Assorted theatre work including The Swap, a cross-dressing comedy, and Judge

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Filmography