Band Of Brothers
BBC1, 10:35 pm

Telegraph Weekend, Autumn 2001

Age: 30.

Style: Ginger spice.

Attitude: Blokey. He lives in London's downmarket Kensal Rise and loves his footie.

Finest hour: Starring in Hearts And Bones and Warriors.

He says: On being cast as the series' lead character Winters: "My head was in the clouds."

They say: "He's like a young Steve McQueen" -- Tony To, the executive producer of the £86m Band Of Brothers.

And another thing: Like McQueen, he's motorbike mad.

What's next: Playing Soames in Granada's upcoming remake of The Forsyte Saga.