I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.

Life is not just one dark moment after another.

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.