Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.'

H. This interruption of a performance because of audience distraction happened three times in his career. He and his brother John were raised in the Roman Catholic faith.

He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor and a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play all for his role in the play The History Boys. He is also known for his portrayal of Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films Uncle Monty in Withnail and I Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky and King George II in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.