While performing in the '70s rock musical Godspell on London's West End, he met his second wife, Irish actress Sinead Cusack, who was starring in a show across the way
Was a regular on the British children's program Playaway
Directed the music video for Carly Simon's 1985 single "Tired of Being Blonde
" Named Best Actor in 1988 by the New York Film Critics Circle for his performance as twin doctors in Dead Ringers
As host of the 1991 Tony Awards, was among the first public figures to appear on TV wearing a red ribbon for AIDS awareness
Owns Kilcoe Castle in Ireland and caused an uproar when he had the castle painted pink in 2001
Won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for his role as the Earl of Leicester in 2005's Elizabeth I
Awards
2020Emmy-Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie:nominated
2014Emmy-Outstanding Narrator:winner
2013Screen Actors Guild Awards-Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries:nominated