 He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and spent the first ten years of his professional career working in the theatre in Britain.Born into a family in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, he later became a member of the Episcopal Church, attending a parish which is in the Anglo-Catholic tradition.He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1970s, appearing in productions of "As You Like It", "Love's Labour's Lost", and "Cymbeline" amongst others.