Background
He grew up in the resort town of Looe, Cornwall.
He grew up in the resort town of Looe, Cornwall.
Ockenden left school at the age of 16 to become a baker. After working in hotel kitchens in Sweden and Germany for one year, he returned to Britain to work as a pastry chef at Hilton Hotel on London"s Park Lane. Before receiving a scholarship from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he took a three year acting course and graduated in 2003, he studied performing arts at the College of Further Education in Plymouth.
Ockenden appeared in the British/Australian drama television series Tripping Over, playing a carpenter named Callum.
He lent his voice and likeness to the 2010 video game Heavy Rain, in which he played Federal Bureau of Investigation profiler Norman Jayden.