Nickolas Andrew Halliwell Grace (born 21st November 1947 in West Kirby, Merseyside) appeared on Coronation Street in January 1974 as trainee architect Peter Shields, who suggested changes to the corner shop for Maggie Clegg.
He was educated at the King's School, Chester and Forest School, Walthamstow and trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he still teaches. He made his debut in repertory theatre in Essex in 1969 and first appeared in London's West End the following year and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1972.
He made his television debut in 1970 in Z Cars but made his greatest impact on the small screen in 1981 when he played Anthony Blanche in Granada Television's acclaimed dramatisation of Brideshead Revisited. Three years later, this led to his playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in ITV's Robin Hood. Other notable television appearances include parts in The Onedin Line, The Fenn Street Gang, The Professionals, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Absolutely Fabulous, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Sharpe, Birds of a Feather, Midsomer Murders, Daniel Deronda, Marple, The Bill, Casualty, Decline and Fall and Killing Eve.
Film roles include Tom & Viv, Evita, Shooting Fish, An Ideal Husband, These Foolish Things, Banksy's Coming for Dinner and Interlude in Prague.
On radio, he has been heard in The Wild Ass's Skin, Nashville, Kipps, Saturday-Night Theatre, The Figaro Plays, Thirty-Minute Theatre, The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere, The Sit-Crom, Lucia In London and The Pallisers.
Other theatre work includes The Comedy of Errors, The Way of the World, Amadeus, A Swell Party and The Drowsy Chaperone.
