Tovey will take on the series regular role of Harry Doyle. The character is described as a mischievous gadabout.

“I feel like I could have been really effeminate, if I hadn’t gone to the school I went to. Where I felt like I had to toughen up,” he said.

It took a decade, too, to be comfortable portraying his own sexuality on stage and screen. Now the former History Boy is going from strength to strength.

Russell Tovey enjoyed his time in Australia working on Jimmy McGovern’s major new TV drama, writes Susan Griffin.

“There’s no, like, ‘Oh, well, he shouldn’t be doing that because he’s gay,’ atau ‘We don’t believe his performances, because he’s gay,’ ” Tovey, 32, berkata of his mastery of blokedom. “