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• Father is a vicar in the Church of England and mother is a professional musician and music teacher.
• At university, was once kicked out of a cathedral for rehearsing pagan rituals for a production of The Wicker Man.
• Cofounder of Dog Ate Cake, a theater company dedicated to farce and previously undiscovered Victorian comedy.
• Starred in The Pillars of the Earth, based on the Ken Follett best seller; the author admits that the fictional Kingsbridge Cathedral was inspired by England's Salisbury Cathedral, where Oakes' father is canon.
• Did not use a stunt man for his thrown-off-a-bridge death scene in The Borgias.