Since 2008, Asprey has played the part of Scar in the West End theatre production of the musical The Lion King.
[1] Asprey subsequently studied business in the United States, with a view to joining the family firm, but while there was cast in a stage production of The Tempest.
This led him to audition for entry to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and at the age of twenty he was one of nineteen new students accepted out of some 2,500 applicants.
[4] In 1995, Asprey was cast as Tony Paterson, a promiscuous hairdresser, in the ITV television serial An Independent Man.
[2] The production had to close in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdown, but it reopened at the Lyceum Theatre in July 2021, with Asprey returning as Scar.