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• Son of Welsh parents.
• Attended a boys’ school.
• Joined the Birmingham Central Television workshop when he was a teenager.
• Started working with the Royal Shakespeare Company when he was 16.
• In 2008, received the Guildhall Gold Medal from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
• Won an Ian Charleson Award in 2011 for his portrayal of Edgar in King Lear.
• Although he already knew how to play the acoustic guitar, he had to learn how to play an electric guitar for the movie Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).