Education
University of Cape Town.
University of Cape Town.
Ferns made an appearance in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) before various television roles, including Trevor Morgan in the British Broadcasting Corporation soap opera EastEnders from 2000 to 2002. In 2005, Ferns played Lieutenant Gordon in the highly acclaimed trilingual film Joyeux Noël, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, Golden Globe Awards and the BAFTAs. In 2003 Ferns appeared as Draco Malfoy in a Harry Potter sketch for Comic Relief.
In 2004 he played Commander Martin Brooke, the lead role, in the short-lived Independent Television series Making Waves.
He has also appeared on Coronation Street. He has also appeared in the 2006 movie Shadow Manitoba, as Schmitt, also starring Steven Seagal.
His theatrical work includes the role of the "tapeworm" (a hallucination) in I.D., a play about Dimitri Tsafendas and his assassination of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the 2008 national tour of Agatha Christie"s murder mystery And Then There Were None, and Little Shop of Horrors as the Dentist. In 2011 he took the role of Scottish gangster Jimmy Boyle in the play about his life, The Hardman, during a Scottish tour to positive reviews.
He also made a brief appearance in the Smirnoff Vodka advert in 2009.
He starred as Luther in the 2011 London revival and subsequent United Kingdom tour of South Pacific. In 2013, he starred as Lee in True West at Glasgow"s Citizen"s Theatre. In 2014, he starred in 24: Live Another Day
In 2016, he starred in Independent Television"s Vera - series 6 episode 4 (The Sea Glass).