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.