Stephen Campbell Moore

Born: 1979
Where: London, UK

The actor first attracted attention in his big screen debut as socialite Adam Fenwick-Symes in Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things.

Campbell Moore played a wannabe novelist in pursuit of Emily Mortimer in Fry's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies.

He was spotted by Fry on stage after training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and working with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The son of a telecoms engineer father and a therapist mother, he was brought up in Herfordshire before taking to the stage.

(aged nine he was temporarily blinded when a swimming pool accident detached his retina necessitating surgery.)

After Bright Young Things he starred alongside Jonny Lee Miller in the TV biopic Byron and returned to the big screen in the dramatisation of Oscar Wilde's A Good Woman with Helen Hunt.

In 2004, he starred in the TV drama Hustle and went on to play the role of Irwin in the original West End stage production of Alan Bennett's The History Boys.

He would go on to reprise the character on Broadway and in Sydney, Wellington and Hong Kong productions as well as the film version in 2006.

The same year he also appeared in director Michael Apted's biopic of anti-slave trade politician William Wilberforce.

Recent work includes the TV time travel series Ashes to Ashes and the British heist caper The Bank Job with Jason Statham.