Worked as an exotic dancer at Windmill Theatre in London
Made his stage debut in the play Class Enemy (1979) and won the Theatre World Award for his performance
Starred in the Broadway play The Elephant Man (1980), where he met his future wife, Juliet Mills
Movie producer Alan Carr took notice of his performance in Entertaining Mr
Sloane and he was chosen out of thousands of applicants to play Michael Carrington in Grease 2 (1982), opposite Michelle Pfeiffer
In 1985, he began his role of Miles Colby on the ABC soap Dynasty; he continued the part on the spin-off series The Colbys (1985-87) and Dynasty: The Reunion (1991)
Joined the cast of the ABC soap opera All My Children as Pierce Riley in 1996
From 2003 to '04 he played Jim Brodie in the BBC hit series Casualty