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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 had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.

I grew up performing in theatre.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

I have done a lot of theater.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.