Credits

• 2026 · Crackula as
• 2026 · SIGNAL as Ray
• 2025 · Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War as Doctor Who (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2024 · Doctor Who at the Proms as The Doctor (9) (archive footage)
• 2024 · The Guilty Innocent with Christopher Eccleston as Presenter
• 2023 · The Kemps: All Gold as Luke Dunmore
• 2023 · Dodger Special: Coronation as Fagin
• 2023 · Dodger Special: Bad Egg as Fagin
• 2022 · Dodger Special: Christmas as Fagin
• 2022 · My Name Is Leon as Mr. Devlin
• 2021 · Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story as Self
• 2020 · The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama as Self
• 2020 · The Hour as Himself
• 2020 · The Kemps: All True as Self
• 2018 · The Flu That Killed 50 Million as Narrator
• 2016 · The Last Miners as Narrator (Voice)
• 2013 · National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as
• 2013 · Emily as James
• 2012 · National Theatre Live: Antigone as Creon, King of Thebes
• 2011 · The Borrowers as Pod Clock
• 2010 · Lennon Naked as John Lennon
• 2005 · The Dark Side of Porn: Porn Shutdown as
• 2005 · Doctor Who: A New Dimension as Self
• 2003 · The Importance of Being Morrissey as Narrator
• 2002 · Tony Adams - Drunk And Dry as Narrator
• 2002 · Revengers Tragedy as Vindici
• 2002 · The King and Us as Anthony
• 2001 · Othello as Ben Jago
• 1999 · With or Without You as Vincent Boyd
• 1999 · Dockers: Writing the Wrongs as Narrator (voice)
• 1998 · A Price Above Rubies as Sender Horowitz
• 1996 · Hillsborough as Trevor Hicks
• 1992 · Rachel's Dream as Man in Dream
• 1992 · Death and the Compass as Schartach / Zunz / Gryphius
• 1992 · Friday on My Mind as Sean
• 1991 · Let Him Have It as Derek Bentley
• Future · Color Your Hurt as James
• 2026 · Chasing Millions as Crayford
• 2026 · Ashes Again! as Dad
• 2026 · Unchosen as Mr Phillips
• 2024 · Whispers of Freedom as Herbert Köfer
• 2024 · Young Woman and the Sea as Jabez Wolffe
• 2024 · An Angel on Oxford Street as Saul (voice)
• 2022 · Dodger Special: Train as Fagin
• 2022 · Remembers… as Self
• 2022 · The Read as Narrator
• 2022 · Dodger as Fagin
• 2021 · Set the Night on Fire: The Story of Ewan MacColl as Self
• 2021 · Close to Me as Rob Harding
• 2020 · Endless as
• 2020 · A Year in the Life of a Year 2019 as Himself
• 2018 · Where Hands Touch as Heinz
• 2018 · Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) as Harvey
• 2018 · King Lear as Oswald
• 2018 · RSC Live: Macbeth as Macbeth
• 2018 · Come Home as Greg Farrell
• 2017 · Manchester: 100 Days After The Attack as Voice
• 2016 · The Last Miners as Narrator (voice)
• 2016 · Ambulance as Self - Narrator
• 2016 · The A Word as Maurice Scott
• 2015 · Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song as The Doctor (9) (picture) (uncredited)
• 2015 · Danger Mouse as J. Woolington Sham (voice)
• 2015 · Legend as Leonard 'Nipper' Read
• 2015 · Safe House as Robert
• 2015 · Fortitude as Professor Charlie Stoddart
• 2014 · Richard III: The New Evidence as Narrator
• 2014 · The Leftovers as Matt Jamison
• 2014 · True Detective as Captain Ted Connelly
• 2013 · Lucan as John Aspinall
• 2013 · Lucan as John Aspinall
• 2013 · Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The Doctor (9) (archive footage)
• 2013 · When Coal Was King as Narrator
• 2013 · Thor: The Dark World as Malekith
• 2013 · Muse of Fire as Self
• 2013 · Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited as Self
• 2012 · When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies as Narrator
• 2012 · Song for Marion as James
• 2012 · Blackout as Daniel Demoys
• 2011 · The Shadow Line as Joseph Bede
• 2010 · Accused as Willy Houlihan
• 2009 · Amelia as Fred Noonan
• 2009 · G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as McCullen / Destro
• 2009 · The Happiness Salesman as Salesman
• 2008 · Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as The Doctor (9) (archive footage)
• 2008 · New Orleans, Mon Amour as Henry
• 2007 · The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising as The Rider
• 2007 · The Sarah Silverman Program as Dr. Lazer Rage
• 2006 · Perfect Parents as Stuart
• 2006 · Heroes as Claude
• 2006 · Best Ever Muppet Moments as Self
• 2005 · Einstein's Big Idea as Narrator (voice)
• 2005 · Doctor Who as Doctor (9)
• 2005 · Doctor Who as Doctor Who
• 2005 · Doctor Who Confidential as Self
• 2004 · The Paul O'Grady Show as
• 2004 · Bible Mysteries as Narrator
• 2003 · Pure Rage: The Making of '28 Days Later' as Self
• 2003 · The Second Coming as Stephen Baxter
• 2003 · The Second Coming as Stephen Baxter
• 2002 · 28 Days Later as Major Henry West
• 2002 · Top Gear as Self
• 2002 · Timeshift as self
• 2002 · What's Your Problem? as
• 2002 · Flesh and Blood as Joe Broughton
• 2002 · I Am Dina as Leo Zhukovsky
• 2002 · 24 Hour Party People as Boethius (uncredited)
• 2002 · Sunday as Major Gen. Robert Ford
• 2001 · Linda Green as Tom/Neil
• 2001 · Strumpet as Strayman
• 2001 · The Others as Charles Stewart
• 2001 · The Invisible Circus as Wolf
• 2000 · Gone in Sixty Seconds as Raymond Calitri
• 1999 · eXistenZ as Seminar Leader
• 1999 · Heart as Gary Ellis
• 1998 · Elizabeth as Duke of Norfolk
• 1996 · Jude as Jude Fawley
• 1996 · Our Friends in the North as Nicky Hutchinson
• 1995 · Hearts and Minds as Drew Mackenzie
• 1994 · Shallow Grave as David Stephens
• 1993 · Cracker as David Bilborough
• 1993 · Cracker as Bilborough
• 1993 · Anchoress as Priest
• 1993 · Cuentos de Borges as Alonso Zunz
• 1993 · GMTV as Self
• 1992 · Roots as Frankie Bryant
• 1992 · Continental Drift as (Business with Friends)
• 1992 · Rachel's Dream as Man in Dream
• 1991 · Performance as Frankie Bryant
• 1990 · Chancer as Radio
• 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Frank Carter
• 1987 · Inspector Morse as Terrence Mitchell
• 1986 · Casualty as Stephen Hills
• 1986 · ScreenPlay as Schartach / Zunz / Gryphius
• 1986 · Boon as Mark
• 1958 · Blue Peter as Self
• Future · Hear Me Roar as Michael Bellinger
• Future · About A Bell as DC Holman