- 2008: Co-starred in the feature adaption of the bestselling novel "The Secret Life of Bees"
- 2006: Co-starred with Harrison Ford in the thriller, "Firewall"
- 2006: Portrayed albino monk, Silas in Ron Howard's big-screen adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code"
- 2004: Co-starred with Nicole Kidman, as Tom Edison, the self-appointed town spokesman in Lars von Trier's "Dogville"
- 2004: Played an aging tennis pro, opposite Kirsten Dunst, in Richard Loncraine's "Wimbledon"
- 2003: Starred in the feature "The Heart of Me," an adaptation of Rosamond Lehmann's novel The Echoing Grove
- 2003: Cast as a young monk who joins a traveling band of actors in "The Reckoning"
- 2003: Re-teamed with Crowe for Peter Weir's "Master and Commander"
- 2001: Cast opposite Russell Crowe, who portrayed mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., in Ron Howard's "A Beautiful Mind"
- 2001: Breakthrough screen role as an often naked Geoffrey Chaucer in "A Knight's Tale"
- 2000: First leading role in films, as the young incarnation of the title character in the British drama "Gangster No. 1"
- 2000: Co-starred in the black comedy "Dead Babies"
- 2000: Debut in a US TV production, cast as James Steerforth in the TNT miniseries adaptation of "David Copperfield"
- 1998: Had supporting role in "Land Girls"
- 1997: Appeared as Prince William of Orange in the British TV production "Sharpe's Waterloo"
- 1997: Film acting debut, playing a Nazi captain in "Bent"
- 1992: Acted in Stephen Daldry's acclaimed revival of "An Inspector Calls"
- Spent one season with the Royal Shakespeare Company
- Raised in Harlsden in northwest London
- Worked as a street performer (busker) in London




