Tobias Menzies Net Worth

Tobias Menzies's Quotes

• On being drawn into acting after frequently attending theater productions with his mother as a teen - The world seemed bigger, richer, watching things unfold in those rooms. In drama, you see other versions of life: 'Oh, that's what it would be like to be that!' Something obviously was stirring in me.
• When I started acting, I found a place and a release which I didn't find in my own life.
• Regarding working with Keira Knightley in the play, The Children's Hour - Being around that level of fame has been quite an eye-opener. We went to a girls' school during rehearsals to work with a drama group. There were 150 children in the playground and they started screaming. I'm sure it wasn't me! There was a volume and intensity about it that was so peculiar, it was animal. Keira deals with that pretty well. Would I want that? Absolutely not. Then again, do you want recognition that allows you to do the work you want to do? Of course.
• On the auditioning process - It's 90 percent humiliation, isn't it? Just going in and kind of crashing and burning and also doing things that you look back and go, Why on earth was I being seen for that? I was just so wrong. I remember auditioning for Moulin Rouge! (2001), the part that Ewan McGregor played. I was so young, I was literally just out of college. But they were just doing that sort of mass casting, just ring up everyone and put them on tape. And I had to sing and dance and it was just ridiculous. What was I doing in that room? Terrible! I tried so hard, it was so terrible!
• [On his Outlander (2014) rape scene with Sam Heughan] It was about trying to get the tone right. I was keen for it to be as psychological as possible. I just didn't want it to feel sensational. If you're going to have Jack rape Jamie, you have to really earn that, really get to a place where that scene is within the realm of the story. Sam and I didn't talk a lot [while shooting those scenes]. We would sort of kept to ourselves between shots. But again, one of the good things is how we had been working together for a year so we had a fair amount of trust.

Interesting Facts about Tobias Menzies

1. He attended Stratford-upon-Avon College's Year-out drama course in 1993-94.
2. He was educated in the Steiner system, which includes movement, singing and musical instruments every day.
3. Tobias attended Frensham Heights School.
4. Was an expert swordsman.
5. Tobias has been a tennis enthusiast since he was a child.
6. Has a younger brother named Luke.
7. Tobias was born in North London and is the son of a teacher and a BBC producer.
8. Tobias was drawn to acting after frequently attending theater productions with his mom as a teen.
9. Tobias appeared in Any Human Heart (2010) with future Outlander (2014) co-stars Sam Heughan and Stanley Weber, but he had no screen time with either actor.
10. He has worked with Charles Dance in Foyle's War (2002), Secret State (2012), The Door (2011), Game of Thrones (2011) and Underworld: Blood Wars (2016).
11. Tobias Menzies, the self-described dreamy kid who grew up in Canterbury playing tennis, zips through London on a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle. "I had to ride a motorbike as a character for the BBC crime drama The Shadow Line (2011). I got the bug and did the full bike test.".
12. One of his first auditions was for the lead role eventually played by Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge! (2001).
13. Tobias became friends with Sally Hawkins when they were students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. They performed a comedy skit as Laurel & Hardy. Tobias portrayed Stan Laurel and Sally played Oliver Hardy in a fat suit.
14. Both Tobias and his Eternal Law (2012) costar, Samuel West have played the role of William Elliot in different adaptations of Jame Austen's Persuasion.
15. In Casino Royale (2006) he was M's (Judi Dench's ) sidekick. He played Hamlet to rave notices in Northampton in 2005 but he only got a three-week run because he had to get back to filming Rome (2005). That series was his big break, but even then he wasn't its out-and-out star.
16. He is a distant relative of botanist Archibald Menzies (1754-1842).
17. Tennis, not acting was Tobias's first love. He wanted to be a professional tennis player, not an actor, and still unwinds with tennis.
18. He is a supporter of Arsenal FC.
19. Tobias displayed his guitar-playing ability in two films, ten years apart, The Low Down (2000) and Forget Me Not (2010).
20. His favorite authors include Karl Ove Knausgard and Alain De Botton.