His credits at London's Regent's Park Open Air Theatre: a footman in "Ring Around The Moon" by Jean Anouilh, Curio in "Twelfth Night", Cobweb in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (all 1985), Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet" (both 1986).
When he noticed that children watching the filming were scared of him as "Lord Voldemort" in हैरी पौटर और आग का प्याला (2005), he knew he had the character right.
