For his performance as coal miner Andrei Glukhov in the 2019 miniseries Chernobyl he received a BAFTA Scotland Award.
[1] The family took up residence in Secunda, where Ferns' father worked as an electrician during the construction of a power plant.
In 2004, he played Commander Martin Brooke, the lead role, in the short-lived ITV series Making Waves.
[citation needed] He has also appeared in the 2006 film Shadow Man, 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.
[citation needed] Ferns took part in television series Celebrity Coach Trip, partnered with friend Ricky Groves.