 honours in history at Churchill College, Cambridge, 1994.He married actress Lucy Barker on 1 May 2004.He is probably best known for his appearances in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" as 1st Lt. Harry Welsh, the BBC docudrama "Dunkirk" as Major Phillip Newman RAMC, and the HBO/BBC2 historical drama, "Rome", as Quintus Valerius Pompey and "Indian Summers" as Ronnie Keane.