Character Actors Aren't A Brand

I Like Doing Everything - Theater And Film, Radio And Tv, Comedy And Tragedy. I Love It All. And I've Never Really Planned Anything - I've Always Looked At My Job In A Rather Simplistic Way. It's Like Being A Plumber. One Day You Might Be Fixing An Early 20th Century Showerhead That Requires Real Detailed Work. The Other Day You Might Just Be Clearing A Sewer. Both Jobs Are Very Different, But All The Tools Come Out Of The Same Box. That's The Way I Look At Acting.

I Think, Because Of My Background, Which Is Slightly More Exotic Than The Average British Actor, I Think, I Sort Of Occupied This Little Niche Quite Early On Of Playing The Foreign Guy. It Started Way Back At Drama School, I Played An Eastern European Heavy, I Played The Russian Mobster. And I Have Done All Those Different Ethnic Roles, And I Think It's Partly Because Of My Look, I Think I've Got An Adaptable Sort Of Nondescript Ethnicity, Which You Can't Quite Pin Down, But It's Enough To Kind Of Get A Flavor Of Something.

I Love Theater Work Because Of The Immediate Effect Your Performance Has On The Audience. And I Love The Repetition, I Love Getting On The Same Stage For More Than A Month And Reciting The Same Lines, Trying To Make A Small Or Large Step Towards An Improvement In My Acting.

Music Is An Essential Part Of My Life And I'm Completely Lost Without A Good Album To Listen To Or My Ipod In My Pocket!

Even At Drama School If There Was A Part Of Some Eastern European Thug It Would Be Me.