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• His first professional job was at age 16 at the Birmingham Rep.
• Attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on a scholarship.
• Won the Best Actor Bancroft Gold Medal in 1975.
• Appeared in Anton Chekov's Ivanov, which was adapted by Tom Stoppard, in a 2008 West End production that co-starred Kenneth Branagh and Tom Hiddleston.
• Made his Broadway debut in Hamlet, playing Claudius, opposite Jude Law in the title role, in 2009.