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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 was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

I was lucky enough to get into drama school in London back in 2005, and I was there for three years, and in those three years, we did a lot of theater. A lot of classical training.

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.

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

The beginning of my acting career was in London, England.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years.

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.