Biographie

Was one of the finalists for the role of Jon Snow, on Game of Thrones, before Kit Harington received it. Though he was remembered when the show runners started casting for the role of Ramsay Snow, a couple of years later.

Plays the piano, guitar, and bass guitar.

Friends with "Game of Thrones" co-star Alfie Allen.

Good friends with his former Misfits co-stars, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Antonia Thomas, who regularly attend his music performances.

Trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

I wasn't, you know, Mr Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.

I must come across as this terrible neurotic case with issues, I keep getting cast that way.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

I've always been into music like from a very young age, and I've always played guitar and written songs and all that - and I love it, but the way it's all turned out in my life...the acting's sort of taken the leading role if you like. So it's turned out like that...which I quite like because it means I can do the music in my spare time and write and record stuff. And if anyone wants to listen to it that's great. It's very much a no pressure thing.

I don't really feel that famous. I think I lead quite a normal life with the occasional something a bit different. I like getting on the train and normal stuff like doing the dishes, because you can so easily lose your mind in this world where everything's done for you, you get picked up, driven to things, given stuff for free and all that madness.