 At the Blackheath Bluecoat Church of England School he taught Rio Ferdinand who went on to achieve a noted career in football, and later worked at the City of London School where Daniel Radcliffe who went on to enjoy fame as a screen and stage actor, was one of students.Cruz started work at the London School of Economics in 2000 in the Language Centre, where he remained until the summer of 2019.He married in London in 2004, the year his first novel, "Las Dimensiones del Teatro" ("The Dimensions of the Theatre") was published under the name Rafael Peñas.