He attended Lum Head Primary School in Gatley in Stockport.
He played the lead in his second film, Jay Russell's The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep.
Etel played Harry Gregson in the five-part TV adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, which was transmitted in the autumn of 2007 and co-starred Philip Glenister, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Francesca Annis and Imelda Staunton.
[4] He reprised his role in the two-part second series entitled Return to Cranford.
According to his official website, as of February 2016[update], Etel's acting career is on hold while he attends university.