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• First major role was on the British soap Coronation Street.
• Met his future wife, Sarah Parish, on set in 2004 while filming the series Cutting It.
• His first child with Parish, Ella-Jayne, was born with a heart defect and died at 8 months; the couple later conducted a fund-raiser for the pediatric unit of the hospital that treated her.
• His character on Primeval, Stephen Hart, inspired an action figure.
• Performed his own stunts on Primeval.
• Is the great-grandson of Richard Hollins Murray, who invented the reflecting lens in 1927.