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• In 1990, won the All-Ireland Schools Choir competition with his school choir.
• In 1999, moved to London to attend drama school.
• Didn't work for 18 months after graduating drama school.
• A singing role at the Greenwich Theatre led to another job offer and consistant work as a theater actor.
• Had to pull out of Robin Hood (2010) after being diagnosed with relapsed Hodgkins Lymphoma, but director Ridley Scott demanded to make everything possible for him to work in the movie if he was well enough to do so, and he did.
• Has performed at the Shakespeare's Globe, the National Theatre, and with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Donmar Warehouse.