He attended the Bolsover School,[1] and was initially interested in pursuing a medical career, before turning his attentions to performing.
His theatre credits include national tours of Peter Shaffer's The Private Ear and The Public Eye, Dry Rot and Funny Peculiar, Diary of a Nobody at the Royal and Derngate, Boeing-Boeing, Selling the Sizzle, Bare Words, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peter Pan, The Hypochondriac, Soap and Cold Turkey.
Blakeley has performed in radio plays for the BBC, as well as providing narration for animation films and poetry recordings.
Blakeley played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Verges in Much Ado About Nothing with the British Shakespeare Company on their 2009 tour of the United Kingdom, Dublin, Norway and Prague.
[2] Blakeley appeared in ITV's Coronation Street and the BBC's Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley in 2018.