- After 19 years together, registered his civil partnership with long-term partner theatre actor Antony Sher in December 2005, as soon as civil unions became legal in England and Wales.
- He was awarded the 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for the Outstanding Achievement Award of 2002 for the Shakespeare's Company's Jacobean season of five plays performed at the Gielgud Theatre.
- In the Independent on Sunday 2006 Pink List - a list of the most influential gay men and women - he came no. 35, up from no. 57.
- He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2024 King's New Years Honours List for his services to the Arts. He was the Lately Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in London, England.
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