Bio
Elliot Cowan is an English actor best known for his starring role as Gunnar in the action/adventure fantasy drama television series Sinbad, in 2012.
He is also known for his starring role as Lorenzo Medici, the reluctant head of the Medici Bank and thus the de facto ruler of Florence, in the historical fantasy drama television series Da Vinci's Demons.
Winner of the MEN Theatre Award in 2007 for Best Actor, his numerous television credits include ITV1's supernatural drama Marchlands and The Fixer as well as playing Mr. Darcy in the network's much loved drama, Lost in Austen.
He has also starred in prime time BBC dramas Blood and Oil, Marple – They Do It with Mirrors and the adapted Phillip Pullman novel, Ruby in the Smoke.
Elliot's film credits include Mike Leigh's Happy Go Lucky, the part of young Ptolemy in Oliver Stone's Alexander starring Angelina Jolie, the thriller Dreck alongside Jonathan Pryce and the short film Gee Gee alongside David Morrissey.
Nominated for a prestigious Ian Charleson Award, Elliot's many theatre credits include Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband at London's Vaudeville Theatre directed by Lynsey Posner.
Elliot played the title role of Macbeth in The Globe Theatre's 2010 production and in the same year he was cast as Stanley Kowalski opposite Rachel Weisz in the hit Donmar revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.
He also starred in the National Theatre's The Revenger's Tragedy with Rory Kinnear.