Began show business career as a dancer with the Explosive Dance Theatre Company

Played an East End London punk in the musical "Labelled With Love", a British stage production based on the Squeeze album "East Side Story"

Was a regular on the British sitcom "In Sickness and in Health" (BBC)

Played PC Malcolm Haines on the ITV police series "The Bill"

Guest starred on an episode of the long running BBC detective drama "Bergerac"

Film debut in the 1977-set British drama "Young Soul Rebels"

Founded Flipside Productions, a theater company

Acted in the "One Foot in the Grave" TV-movie "One Foot in the Algarve" (BBC)

Featured in the fast-moving drama "Shopping", starring Jude Law and Sadie Frost

Played convict Snoopy Oswald in Lynda LaPlante's ITV series "The Governor", starring Janet McTeer as a prison warden

Starred on Lynda LaPlante's ITV police drama series "Supply & Demand" as a streetwise cop who goes undercover in the drug trade

Played incarcerated Muslim leader Kareem Said in the HBO prison series "Oz"

Co-starred in the reunion TV-movie "Homicide: The Movie" (NBC)

Featured in "Once in the Life", Laurence Fishburne's directorial debut, following two con men brothers who botch a robbery

Portrayed "Othello" in a revisionist British TV adapation that moved the character to contemporary times and made him a police commissioner; aired on ITV