ABOUT ME

I have been a professional actor for 35 years, working in mainstream, independent and low budget films, TV dramas and soaps, West-End, repertory and touring theatre. I know what it takes to be a successful professional working actor. This depth and range of experience has led me to a great many realisations, which I am dedicated to sharing as an acting teacher, 121 acting coach and director.

As a young actor I apprenticed professionally at The Birmingham Repertory Theatre before studying at Middlesex University School of Performing Arts and The Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama.

As a jobbing actor, throughout my 20s and 30s, my continued passion and curiosity to expand my knowledge and find deeper ways of working led me to further study with master acting teachers in London, New York and Los Angeles, in techniques pioneered by Sandford Meisner, Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg. More recently, I have studied the work of Mike Alfreds and trained in The Spiritual Psychology of Acting. As a result, I have gained a deeply authentic and genuine understanding of the art & craft of acting and how to teach it.

My own career highlights as an actor include working alongside: Sam Rockwell (Moon), Helena Bonham Carter (Wings Of The Dove), Colin Firth (Fever Pitch) and Ray Winstone (Five Seconds To Spare).

I am based in London and have been teaching and coaching acting for 30 years now, running my own specialist intensive courses in the UK and Internationally. I coach actors privately to develop their roles for Film, TV and Theatre, I prepare actors for castings and I specialise in personal development through ongoing 121 practice.

Actors who have trained or coached with me include: Ed Speleers (Picard, You, Outlander, Downton Abbey, Wolf Hall), Stacy Martin (Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac, Ridley Scott’s All The Money In The World, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist), Fola Evans-Akingbola (The Night Agent, Ten Percent, Game Of Thrones), Emily Beecham (1899, Little Joe, Cruella), Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange, David Copperfield), Razane Jammal (The Sandman, Paranormal, Berlin Station), Freddie Fox (Slow Horses, The Sandman), Laura Birn (Foundation, The Crow), Jamie Ward (Verona, His Dark Materials), James Murray (The Crown, Masters Of The Air), Julian Kostov (The White Lotus, Shadow & Bone), Christina Wolfe (FBI: International, The Weekend Away). Cavan Clerkin (The Capture, The Last Kingdom).

I have worked with many more actors, developing their roles on a large portfolio of high-profile work, the highlights of which include:

• Netflix The Crown, You, The Sandman, The Last Kingdom

• Amazon Outer Range, Ten Percent, The Romanoffs,

• Apple TV+ Masters Of The Air

• BBC 1. Peaky Blinders, The Capture, The Three Musketeers, Death In Paradise

• ITV The Tower, Rebus, Harlots, Our House

• Channel 4 The Gathering

• Her Majesty’s Theatre The Phantom Of The Opera

• RSC Hamlet