 He has performed numerous times with the Glasgow Citizens Company, at the Chichester Festival Theatre and Edinburgh Festival, and in London's West End, in such productions as "Don Carlos", "Romeo and Juliet", "The Return of A. J. Raffles", "The Rose Tattoo", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and "Semi-Monde".Bates made his Broadway debut opposite his father in Ivan Turgenev's "Fortune's Fool" in 2002.Bates' twin brother Tristan, also an actor, died unexpectedly in 1990 at the age of 19.