He was banned from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts' final-year musical for having no sense of rhythm. He performed in the end of year play instead.
Previously dated his Mamma Mia! (2008) co-star Amanda Seyfried for 2 1/2 years from shortly after filming Mamma Mia in September 2007 to May 2010. and have remained friends.
Nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2006 for the role of Dakin in the Broadway production of
Alan Bennett's "The History Boys".
His maternal great-grandfather was film enthusiast E.T. Heron, who published The Kinematograph Weekly.
Playing the role of "Dakin" in The History Boys on
Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, NY. It officially
opens April 23, 2006. (April 2006)
Starring in "The History Boys" at the National Theatre, London,
as Dakin. (2005)
One of his maternal great-grandmothers was Scottish.