In 1987, he was one of three actors (the others being David Fielder and Sylvester McCoy) who performed in a screen test to play the Seventh Doctor in Doctor Who (1963), a role which eventually went to McCoy.
He was awarded the 2011 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Featured Performance for "The Cripple of Inishmaan," in a Druid and Atlantic Theater Company production at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
Born on exactly the same date as Glenn Close (of "Fatal Attraction" fame).