Date of Birth: June 18th, 1986
Where: Elderslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK

• Joined a youth drama group at age 11 and was soon cast in a film (as a rape victim in the 2000 drama Complicity); and appeared in a British children’s TV series (My Barmy Aunt Boomerang) at age 13.

• Was bullied in secondary school because of his childhood acting experience.

• Starred in a Globe Theatre production of Romeo and Juliet in London and on a British tour while still a student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

• Has also appeared on stage with the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

• Costarred in Hope Springs, a 2009 BBC comedy-drama series about women ex-cons; and Sirens, a 2011 BBC comedy series about paramedics.

• Won the 2009 Scottish Style Award for Most Stylish Male and was named one of Scotland’s “most eligible men” by the Scotsman newspaper in 2010.