Professional acting debut at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre in Scotland, playing the rear end of a horse in "Cinderella"

Worked with Glasgow Citizens Theatre

Film debut in "Excalibur"

Spent part of one season with the Greenwich Theatre in London

Appeared in Peter Brook's staging of "The Mahabharata"

First worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in "The Last Days of Don Juan," directed by Danny Boyle

Had featured role in Peter Greenaway's "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"

Starred with Colin Firth and Stephen Dillane in "Hostages"

Appeared as Samuel Byck in the London premiere of the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical "Assassins"

Breakthrough stage role, "Richard III"

Played slightly sinister character in "Prime Suspect 3"

First played Rochester in a radio presentation of "Jane Eyre"

Portrayed a professor in "Circle of Friends"

Co-starred in "Persuasion"

Co-starred with Liza Walker and Clive Owen in the original production of Patrick Marber's "Closer"

Starred as Rochester in the BBC/A&E TV production of "Jane Eyre"

Had featured role in "Oscar and Lucinda"

Made Broadway debut recreating London stage role in "Closer"

Acted in the British TV drama "The Sleeper"

Cast as President Alexander Nemerov in the drama feature "Sum Of All Fears"

Portrayed Finn McGovern in the crime drama "Road To Perdition"

Cast in the action feature "Tomb Raider 2"

Co-starred in the feature "Veronica Guerin," which starred Cate Blanchett as the title character

Appeared in "Calender Girls" which also starred Helen Mirren

Cast in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera," the screen adaptation of the long-running stage musical

Portrayed Julius Caesar in the HBO original series "Rome"

Cast in Steven Spielberg's "Munich," which centers on the aftermath of the tragic massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics

Cast as FBI agent Fujima in the feature adaptation of the 80's series "Miami Vice" directed by Michael Mann

Cast as King Herod in the biblical film "The Nativity Story"

Co-starred with Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh in the Noah Baumbach directed "Margot at the Wedding"

Co-starred in the war drama "Stop-Loss" written and directed by Kimberly Peirce