[3] He became interested in acting while taking drama classes at a local comprehensive school, and was encouraged by a teacher to apply for the National Youth Theatre of Wales.
[1][4] In 1987, at the National Youth Theatre of Wales, the 16-year old Hughes met and became close friends with Michael Sheen, who lived in the same residence hall.
[4] Hughes studied drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art,[5] during which time he shared a house with Sheen and Simons.
The show revolves around a group of young professionals sharing a house in London and is mainly focussed on their turbulent love lives.
Many young gay men, pleased at seeing their experience represented on-screen, wrote to Hughes about their stories of coming out to their families.
[7] The show revolves around two detectives who solve gory and unique murders amongst the tranquil setting of Midsomer County.
[1] After feeling "irresponsible" and "letting myself, wife and children down", when his agent spoke to him about an interview for Midsomer Murders which gave him a steady ten months of work a year; he described it as a "gift from the angels".
Clark is the second lieutenant who is ordered to gather a group of negative and demoralised convicts into a cast that is able to re-enact Farquhar's The Performing Officer.
[3] Hughes calls himself a family man and part of what caused him to leave Midsomer Murders was due to being away from home for up to six months.