[3] He took a break from the show in mid-2008 to appear as Petruchio in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Taming of the Shrew, returning to soap for a few episodes in November 2010.
with Beryl Reid and its successor programme Mooncat and Co, where he was joined variously by the likes of Pat Coombs, Pam Ayres, Patsy Rowlands and Wilf Lunn.
[15][16] In 2012, Boxer appeared as Francisco de Aguiar y Seijas in the RSC production of Helen Edmundson's The Heresy of Love.
[19][20] Between October 2016 to March 2017, he worked with From Software to voice the character and boss enemy Slave Knight Gael in the video game Dark Souls III, specifically its DLC Ashes of Ariandel and The Ringed City.
He recently played Captain Rivers in the stage adaptation of Pat Barker's Booker-prize nominated novel Regeneration.