He was offered a place at one of the countries leading drama schools Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art when he was 18 after his mother encouraged him to audition.

Unable to afford the tuition fees he won an Essex County Council Scholarship and went on to study at the prestigious acting academy in South Kensington, London, which he left after one term in December 1997 before producing and acting in a fringe theatre production in November 1998 called The Gary Oldman Fanclub at The Man in The Moon on Kings Road.

The period comedy called Burke & Hare is about two Irish serial killers who sold the corpses of their 17 victims to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection.

In 2006 Moorcroft wrote the screenplay for St Trinian's, a film based on the cartoons by British cartoonist, Ronald Searle, for Ealing Studios.

[4] It was reported in Screen International that the schoolgirl comedy, based on the cartoons by Ronald Searle, had a budget of $13m (£6.5m) and took $26m (£13m) at the UK box office alone, making it the then third most successful independent British film, behind Four Weddings and a Funeral and Trainspotting.

The film was directed by American filmmaker John Landis and starred Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as the murderous duo.

[9] The Los Angeles Times reported on 6 July 2010, that Hollywood Studio, Columbia Pictures, has hired writers Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft, to write a script for the family adventure story Christian the lion.

[10] The true story about John Rendall and Ace Bourke who bought a lion cub at Harrods department store in 1969, became an internet sensation in 2008 when a heart warming clip appeared on YouTube of Christian the lion recognizing his former owners in the wilds of Africa after they had raised it as their own in their London flat on the Kings Road then arranged for him to be returned to Kenya and reintroduced into the wild by George Adamson.

On 13 October 2017, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Nick Moorcroft and Meg Leonard have been hired to adapt "The Lido" – the highly anticipated debut novel from Libby Page.

It stars Sam Claflin, Timothy Spall, Noel Clarke, Hugh Bonneville and David Hayman and will be distributed in the U.K by Entertainment Film Distributors in 2019.

A French remake of Finding Your Feet based on the original screenplay written by Nick Moorcroft & Meg Leonard started shooting in Paris, France, on 10 August 2020.

The film, entitled "Alors on Danse" was directed, adapted by and stars Michèle Laroque and will be theatrically released by UGC nationwide in France on 22 January 2022.

[22] The film starred James Purefoy, David Hayman, Dave Johns, Sam Swainsbury, Maggie Steed, Jade Anouka, Ramon Tikaram and Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May making her acting debut.