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• Made his acting debut in regional theater, meeting director and long-time collaborator Nicholas Hytner while playing Maximilien Robespierre in The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1985.
• Played Oberon in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream that was later filmed; the production also transferred to Broadway.
• Became the first person to have won Olivier Best Actor Awards for Comedy (Too Clever By Half in 1988), Drama (Peer Gynt in 1996) and a Musical (My Fair Lady in 2003).
• Famed for portraying royals, he appeared as Prince Charles in 2006 movie The Queen, as Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor in Netflix's The Crown and Leopold I of Belgium in ITV/PBS's period-drama Victoria.