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• Adopted at birth by middle-class teachers.
• Knew he wanted to become an actor while in primary school.
• Honed his acting chops with Britain's National Youth Theatre. 
• Pursued stand-up comedy for a time during his college years.
• Joined the amateur theatrical Footlights Dramatic Club while at Cambridge. 
• Discovered by British theatrical-film director Peter Hall, who spotted him in a Footlights production of Macbeth opposite Hall's daughter Rebecca.
• Editor-at-large for the Junket, an online quarterly magazine. 
• Writes a column for the Sunday Telegraph (a British newspaper).