He is best known for playing poet Thomas Wyatt in the television series The Tudors.
In 2024 he starred in the short film The Light Before the Sun, which marked both the debut release from his Blackbird Productions studio and his first credit as a screenwriter.
[2] He is married to Canadian actress Tamara Podemski, with whom he launched the Blackbird Productions studio.
A coroner's investigation later determined that the death was due to brain damage caused when a hospital delayed Podemski's caesarean section.
[4] The experience later inspired him to write a screenplay adaptation of James Titcombe's book Joshua's Story: Uncovering the Morecambe Bay NHS Scandal, about Titcombe's own experience having a child die in infancy due to failures in the management of the National Health Service, which is planned for future release through Blackbird.