It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama: fathers and sons, star-crossed lovers, warring brothers, martyred heroes. Tales that taught us the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. It’s the everyday stuff of everyman’s life, but it’s writ large, and we love it.

He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and he rose to prominence through a number of TV roles and more recently major film roles. His Donmar Warehouse credits include Cassio in Michael Grandage's production of Shakespeare's Othello alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ewan McGregor to critical acclaim and later Lvov in their West End revival of Chekhov's Ivanov. He reprised his role as the supervillain Loki in the 2012 movie The Avengers.

He played author F. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and he rose to prominence through a number of TV roles and more recently major film roles. Scott Fitzgerald in the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris (2011).