1. Elliot Aidan Cowan was born on 9 July 1976 and is a British film and television actor, known for portraying Corporal Jem Poynton in Ultimate Force, Mr Darcy in Lost in Austen, and Ptolemy in the 2004 film Alexander.
10 Facts About Elliot Cowan
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Elliot Cowan starred as Lorenzo de' Medici in Da Vinci's Demons and Daron-Vex in Krypton.
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Elliot Cowan is the son of a consultant physician and a charity worker, and has a younger brother and sister.
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Elliot Cowan later obtained a first class degree in drama at the University of Birmingham, before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, from which he graduated in July 2001.
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From 1994 to 1996, Elliot Cowan was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre.
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Elliot Cowan plays guitar and cello, and has worked with the London Sinfonia.
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Elliot Cowan has appeared in the films The Golden Compass, Happy-Go-Lucky, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, Love and Other Disasters, and Howl.
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Elliot Cowan played Stanley Kowalski in the 2009 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse, and was a lead in Les Blancs at the National Theatre in 2016.
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Elliot Cowan played Macbeth at the Globe Theatre from 23 April- 27 June 2010 alongside Laura Rogers as Lady Macbeth.
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Elliot Cowan starred as Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville Theatre in London's West End from 4 November 2010 to 19 February 2011.