Irish naval officer and explorer
Along with David Tennant , Matt Smith , Elisabeth Sladen , John Leeson , Tommy Knight and Lachele Carl , he is one of only seven actors to play the same character (Mr Smith) in both "Doctor Who" and "The Sarah Jane Adventures" .
Has three sons, Edward, Patrick and Rex.
His father is Angus Armstrong (a GP) and his mother is Virginia McCausland. Has an older brother, Dominic and an older sister, Alice (b. 1967).
He is distantly related to William Armstrong, later Baron Armstrong of Cragside. Cragside is a mansion in Northumberland which was the first to be lit by electricity in the late 1860s.
Second cousin of the actress Imogen Stubbs (his grandfather was brother of her grandmother).
His wife, Hannah Bronwen Snow is the sister of Giles Coren s wife, Esther Walker.
Brother-in-law of David Mitchell , Victoria Coren Mitchell and Giles Coren.
By an extraordinary coincidence, he bought the same first single and album as his "Pointless" co-presenter Richard Osman (the first album he bought was "Kings of the Wild Frontier" by Adam and the Ants and the first single he bought was "Swords of a Thousand Men" by Tenpole Tudor ).
He is a big fan of David Bowie , Prince and Elbow.
People never look better than in period costume, especially men.
I used to play the drums and I am now stone deaf.
