✦Having his wax work unveiled at Madame Tussauds in London on October 16, 2008.
✦He alongside actors Hugh Grant and Robbie Coltrane auctioned off their kisses at Great British Movie Event on June 17, 2008 and managed to raise $38,000 for The National Film and Television School in London.
✦Included in a poll of 100 Sexiest Movie Stars compiled by Empire magazine in December 2007.
✦Dropped out talks to star opposite Julianne Moore in "Blindness" (2008).
✦Named GQ magazine's Britain's Best-Dressed Man in April 2007.