Career
He was nominated for a Scottish Critics" Award 2004 for his portrayal of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh. He played the Earl of Gloucester in the Donmar Theatre production of King Lear with Derek Jacobi, Maurice Montgomery in Nicholas Wright"s Travelling Light at the National Theatre and appeared in Caryl Churchill"s Love and Information at the Royal Court (2012). Recent film: Brutus in Coriolanus directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, Nae Caranfil"s Closer to the Moon and David Hare"s Wall.
He plays William Turner, father of JMW Turner in Mike Leigh"s 2014 film Mr.
Turner. He returned to the Royal Society of Chemistry to play Cardinal Wolsey in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies at Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Aldwych Theatre, London. The productions are currently at the Winter Garden on Broadway.
Later in 2015 he will appear as Roy in The Trials of Jimmy Rose, which stars Ray Winstone, for Granada television