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• Dropped out of his drama course at Trinity College in Dublin, to join the players at the esteemed Abbey Theatre.
• Made his Broadway debut in The Vertical Hour, opposite Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy, and directed by Sam Mendes, in 2006.
• Voiced the character of Stephen Dedalus in a BBC Radio production of James Joyce's Ulysses in 2012.
• In 2013, he publicly came out as gay, condemning Vladmir Putin's Anti-Gay legislation in Russia.