Lachlan Nieboer

Lachlan Nieboer
Born	Lachlan Nieboer 11 September 1981 Epsom, Surrey
Nationality	English
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2007–present

Lachlan Nieboer is an English film and television actor. He is best known for playing blind Lieutenant Edward Courtenay in the ITV hit television series Downton Abbey and Slater in the complex psychological thriller Identicals.

He went to St. Paul's School in Barnes, West London. At 16, he was offered a contract with Northamptonshire Cricket Club. He took a gap year after school, worked as a model, and went to live in Rome, where he got a Diploma in spoken Latin from the Gregorian University. He then travelled to the South Pacific islands, before going on to study Classics at New College, Oxford.

After Oxford, he went to New York to train as an actor and director at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. After drama school, he co-founded, trained and directed Perennial Theatre Company.

Lachlan's first job out of drama school was the role of Captain Jack Harkness' brother Gray in the BBC hit television series Torchwood. He then went on to play the role of Lord Brandon Perry in the film biopic Vivaldi the Red Priest, starring Steven Cree, Clemency Burton-Hill, James Jagger, Charity Wakefield, Matthew McNulty and Christian McKay.

In 2011, Lachlan played the tragic, suicidal character of Lieutenant Edward Courtenay in the second series of Downton Abbey, working alongside Jessica Brown-Findlay and Rob James-Collier. He then starred as Captain Davenport in the Norwegian feature film Cross of Honour (originally Into the White), also starring Rupert Grint and David Kross, a Second World War drama based on a true story about British and German pilots who, having shot each other down, are forced to share a cabin in the mountains. One reviewer noted his performance was 'as elegant as a young Hugh Grant'.

...
Wikipedia