A British stage, film and television actor, best known for playing Thomas Cromwell in the television series "The Tudors". He graduated in Drama and Film from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, UK, and went on to study acting at London's Central School of Speech and Drama.

Filmography

• 2026Foster
• 2024The Jester from Transylvania — James Hooker
• Mayfair Witches — Solomon
• Quantum Leap — Gideon Rydge
• 2021Escape Room: Tournament of Champions — Henry / Puzzlemaker
• Showtrial — Damian Campbell
• 2019Against the Clock — Dr. A
• The Twilight Zone — Mr. Allendale
• What We Do in the Shadows — Black Peter, A Goat
• Star Trek: Discovery — Sarek
• 2016The Architect — Miles Moss
• Marvel's Agent Carter — Leet Brannis
• Gotham — Theo Galavan / Azrael
• Intruders — Richard Shepherd
• True Detective — Lieutenant Kevin Burris
• 2013All Things To All Men — Attorney General
• 2013Born of War — Simon
• 2013Event 15 — Andrews
• Orphan Black — Ferdinand Chevalier
• Sleepy Hollow — Rutledge
• 2013The Lone Ranger — Barret
• The Tunnel — Kieran Ashton / John Sumner
• The White Queen — Richard Neville
• 2012Bert & Dickie — Jack Beresford
• Elementary — Odin Reichenbach
• 2012Transit — Marek
• 2012Zambezi — Narrator
• Grimm — Eric Renard
• The Cape — Peter Fleming / Chess
• 2011Water for Elephants — Rosie's Caretaker
• 2010Dark Relic — Sir Gregory
• Hawaii Five-0 — Sebastian Wake
• Miami Medical
• 2010TRON: Legacy — Jarvis
• 2009Everybody's Fine — Tom
• FlashForward — Gordon Myhill
• Lie to Me — McClellan
• Fringe — Mr. Kohl
• In Plain Sight — Phillip Ashmore / Phillip Andrews
• Leverage — John Douglas Keller
• 2008Quid Pro Quo — Father Dave
• The Mentalist — Terry Murphy
• True Blood — Franklin Mott
• Burn Notice — James Forte
• Californication — Paul Rider
• The Tudors — Thomas Cromwell
• 2006The Front Line — Eddie Gilroy
• Empire — Brutus
• Grey's Anatomy — Tom Crowley
• 2005Into the Blue — Reyes
• Invasion — Eli Szura
• Medium — Calley
• Numb3rs — Allister McClair
• The Closer — Paul Andrews
• Threshold
• 2004Spartacus — David
• Spartacus — David
• 2003Path to War — Richard Goodwin
• CSI: Miami — Richard Ellison
• 2002The Count of Monte Cristo — J.F. Villefort
• 2002The Project — Harvey
• The Project — Harvey
• 24 — Paul Raines
• Armadillo — Lorimer Black
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Dean Holiday
• Arabian Nights — Schahzenan / Harun
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Jeffrey Hughes
• 2000Reindeer Games — Nick Cassidy
• Strong Medicine — Art Gallery Painter
• 2000The Miracle Maker — Thomas (voice)
• 2000Where the Heart Is — Forney Hull
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Martin Gold
• 1999Sunshine — Gustave Sonnenschein
• The Vice — Gordon Ellis
• 1999Titus — Bassianus
• 1998Elizabeth — Alvaro de la Quadra
• 1998Hilary and Jackie — Daniel Barenboim
• 1998Vigo — Jean Vigo
• 1998What Rats Won't Do — Jack Sullivan
• 1997Macbeth on the Estate — Macbeth
• 1997Red Meat — Victor
• 1997Robinson Crusoe — Robert/Defoe's Publisher
• 1997The Mill on the Floss — Philip Wakem
• 1996Loch Ness — Adrian Foote
• 1996Nothing Personal — Kenny
• 1996Rasputin — Prince Felix Yusupov
• Strangers — Dirk
• 1995An Awfully Big Adventure — John Harbour
• The Buccaneers — Julius Folyat
• 1993Shadowlands — Peter Whistler
• Performance — Macbeth
• Prime Suspect — Jason Baldwin
• Soldier Soldier — Lt Giles Chapman
• Tales from the Crypt — Elliot

Appearances as themselves (1)

• The Ready Room — Self