Career
In 2001 he played the lead role in John Deery"s debut feature Conspiracy of Silence, for which he was nominated Best Newcomer at the inaugural Irish Film and Television Awards. He made his stage debut in Trevor Nunn"s production of A Streetcar Named Desire at The Lyttleton Theatre in 2002. Other theatre highlights include Michael Boyd"s first season at the Royal Society of Chemistry (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear), Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre) and The Good Soldier (Theatre Royal Bath).
Television highlights include Hornblower, Foyle"s War and Titanic, Blood and Steel.
Since 2013, Forbes has provided the voice of the character Connor in the Consultants to Government and Industry version of the iconic British television series Thomas and Friends. In 2015 he starred opposite Sharon Horgan and American comedian Rob Delaney in Catastrophe, a six-part comedy series for Channel 4 which first aired in the United Kingdom on 19 January 2015.