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• Born in Sudan to English parents and lived in Israel as a child due to his father's position as a bank manager.
• Found an affinity for performing at the age of 6 while reciting A.A. Milne poems to his family.
• Earned a scholarship to the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
• Was a member of the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool.
• Made his Broadway debut as Henry Straker in Man and Superman at Circle in the Square Theatre in 1978.
• Joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the early 1980s.
• Starred as Inspector Goole in the 1994 Broadway production of Stephen Daldry's An Inspector Calls.
• Played the role of Lord Burleigh in Mary Stuart on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre in 2009.