sentences:  After leaving school at 17, he gained a job at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford where he worked as a stagehand.He joined the Northcott Theatre in Exeter, where he worked as an assistant stage manager on productions directed by Jane Howell, and then rose to be a stage manager at several venues including the Royal Court in London before training as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).He appeared in CITV's "Children's Ward", playing Charge Nurse Dave Spencer; the BBC's "Casualty", playing Frank Wilkinson; in ITV's "Coronation Street" playing Marc Selby in 2011; and portrayed the evangelist Billy Graham in Harry Shearer's "Nixon's the One" for Sky Arts.