✦Backed out from formal acting lesson at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) when he was twenty and chose to focus on working only to regret it later.
✦His grandfather was a stand-up comic and children's entertainer while his great-uncle, Rex Bale, was an actor.
✦His sister, Louise Bale is an award-winning theatre director and actor and also appeared in "Newsies" (1992).
✦His stepmother, Gloria Steinem is a feminist author.