As a teenager, worked as an intern at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT

Early professional role in Seattle production of "Master Harold...and the Boys"; landed part while still a student at Yale

Received generally strong notices for his performance as a young Brit in the Long Wharf Theater production of "Paddywack"

Broadway debut as the young lover of Helen Mirren in "A Month in the Country"

TV acting debut in the NBC miniseries "Danielle Steel's The Ring"

Filmed role in support of Brooke Shields in the TV-movie "The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery" (aired in summer 1999)

First film role as Joanna Going's preppy husband in "Inventing the Abbotts"

Breakthrough screen role as Nicolas Cage's paranoid schizophrenic brother in John Woo's "Face/Off"

Adopted a British accent to play a mystery man from former girlfriend Rachel Weisz's past in "I Want You"

Starred opposite Reese Witherspoon in "Best Laid Plans"

Returned to the stage, starring opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of "As You Like It"

Played the King of Navarre in Kenneth Branagh's musicalized version of Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost"

Had featured role in "Jurassic Park III" the third film of the Jurassic Park film series

Played a rock singer involved with his record producer, played by Frances McDormand, in "Laurel Canyon"; received Independent Spirit Award nomination for best supporting male

Cast opposite Julia Stiles in the romantic comedy "Carolina"

Starred opposite Robert Redford and Helen Mirren in "The Clearing"

Co-starred in the independent southern drama "Junebug"; premiered at Sundance

Played a British football (soccer) player in Danny Cannon's "Goal! The Dream Begins"

Reprised role for the sequel, "Goal! 2: Living the Dream..."

Co-starred with Jessica Alba in the supernatural thriller, "The Eye"