I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
London has this culture of the theatre that is so big, it was a like a dream - but I never had a thought to be able to play here because my English was not very good. So being given the opportunity to come work here was like a gift.
I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
The beginning of my acting career was in London, England.
I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.
When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.
Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.
I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.
Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.
I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.