Thirty years in showbiz has taken Nicholas around the globe, up onto the silver screen, into your living room, and right down your earholes.

The third boy in a Northern Irish family, he was born on the Rock of Gibraltar in 1968, and then educated at boarding school in county Wicklow, Ireland, and later at Sherborne School in the UK. He went on to study acting in London at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Having won the prestigious BBC Carleton-Hobbs Award for Radio in his final year, he kicked off his career with the prize of a contract with the BBC Radio Drama Repertory Company. He has since been heard in a multitude of radio plays for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, and The BBC World Service.

An accomplished stage, screen, and audio performer he has appeared in movies (including Shakespeare In Love, and Topsy Turvy), TV programs (including Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, and Endeavour), and stage plays (including the Wolf Hall trilogy, and Imperium for the Royal Shakespeare Company).

As an audiobook narrator renowned for his warmth of tone, facility for character and accent, and innate understanding of how to tell a story, he has performed close to two hundred books - most of them unabridged, and many recorded at home in his Studiobricks booth - and won a plethora of awards and nominations (Audies, SOVAS, AudioFile Earphones Awards).

He has lent his voice to a legion of popular characters in countless AAA video games (including Hawke in Dragon Age, Reyes Vidal in Mass Effect, Raubahn in Final Fantasy xiv, and Druth in Hellblade 1 and 2) and has died a thousand deaths in most of them.

He is based in London and on the South Coast of the UK, where he enjoys kite-surfing, horse-riding, cooking, and being “Daddy Dinosaur” to his young son.