Biography

In a relationship with Keri Russell since 2013.

Credits Sally Field as his favorite acting mentor/best friend.

First language is Welsh.

He played Justin Price in Columbo: Columbo Likes the Nightlife (2003) and is therefore the final actor to play a murderer who was investigated by Peter Falk's Lt. Columbo.

Shared a flat in London with good friends and fellow Welsh actors Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Sheen.

It was perfect because as a kid I loved historical dramas like The Flashing Blade and Zorro, I grew up running around the garden with swords, pretending I was on a horse so when I read this script I thought, 'God, I can do this for real'. Sometimes, historical movies have been seen as a bit naff but this is very slick and there are so many elements to it.

[Of his professional relationship with Ioan Gruffudd]: The first time I worked with Ioan, playing a gay couple together, it was mad and a lot of fun. A scream. We were given free range, so we took a bit of a risk and had fun with the characters. Which is also dangerous. Because we've got so much history maybe we were in danger of going over the top, I don't know. Maybe some people think we have. It was just like being at home messing about in the flat. We do have a few characters that we like to mess about with. These two established themselves on the tube ride, when we used go to college and back everyday, and we went from there. It was a gift really. I'm not at all worried about playing a gay couple with Ioan. In all honesty there have been the rumours, which we have heard, that we are gay in real life. What do you do? You laugh. Good luck. No, they are a light-hearted couple in the film. Even if we played a couple who the film centred around and it was a serious piece and they were lovers, if the work's good and we want to do it, we'll do it.

[When he was playing the role of an angry man]: He's tired of the aristocratic oppressive rulers of England, he wants to get out and make a new world for himself. He's very interested in change and progress - he hates the suffocating feeling that heritage and ritual imposes on him. He's also very idealistic and very determined in what he wants. He's a believer and he'll follow through to the end. I can be like that.

Don't ask me why. I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

[As to how he would best describe Sally Field, as a relative on Brothers & Sisters (2006)]: I call Sally Field America's Mother! She is incredible to watch. And she really is doing it. There was one scene where she was chopping in the kitchen and afterwards she came out with a bowl of guacamole!