 For their performances in the film, Cross and his co-star Ian Charleson both won "Most Promising Artiste of 1981" awards from the Variety Club Awards in February 1982.Cross's starring role in "Chariots of Fire" has been credited with continuing a transatlantic trend in elegant young English actors that had been set by Jeremy Irons in "Brideshead Revisited", and was followed by Rupert Everett in "Dance with a Stranger", Rupert Graves in "A Room With a View", and Hugh Grant in "Maurice".Cross followed up "Chariots of Fire" with performances as a Scottish physician, Dr Andrew Manson, struggling with the politics of the British medical system during the 1920s, in "The Citadel", a 10-part BBC dramatisation of A.J.