His theatre work includes the multi award-winning
Merrily We Roll Along and
Grand Hotel for Michael Grandage at the Donmar Warehouse;
Annie Get Your Gun for Richard Jones at The Young Vic; Michel Legrand's
Marguerite at the Haymarket for Jonathan Kent;
King Lear for Yukio Ninagawa at the RSC;
Butley at the Booth Theatre on Broadway opposite Nathan Lane;
Death Takes a Holiday for The Roundabout Theatre Company in New York;
A Woman of No Importance for Adrian Noble at the Haymarket;
Finding Neverland for The Weinstein Company; the Parisian premiere of
Sunday in the Park with George;
Show Boat at the Lincoln Center in New York;
My Night with Reg at the Donmar Warehouse; Ivo van Hove's
All About Eve at the Noël Coward Theatre opposite Gillian Anderson; and
South Pacific at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Ovenden has also sung musical theatre songs in several concerts at
the Proms, in particular concerts of
Stephen Sondheim and of
Rodgers and Hammerstein. In 2015, he played
Captain Georg von Trapp in the ITV live musical adaptation,
The Sound of Music Live. Ovenden first appeared on British TV in a recurring role over five seasons of ''
Foyle's War opposite Michael Kitchen. He also appeared in two series of Downton Abbey. Other British TV work includes The Forsyte Saga, Any Human Heart, and The Royal. On US TV, Ovenden was a recurring cast member in Person of Interest (Jeremy Lambert) for three years. He has also appeared in seasons of Cashmere Mafia, Related and SMASH. Recently he has portrayed Robert F. Kennedy in The Crown and is starring as William de Nogaret in Knightfall''. Ovenden's film work includes
Colonia opposite
Emma Watson and
Daniel Brühl,
The Confessions with
Daniel Auteuil,
Toni Servillo and
Connie Nielsen and British indie war film,
Allies (Captain Gabriel Jackson)
. As a solo singer Ovenden has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the
New York Philharmonic, the
New York Pops, The
Northern Sinfonia, the
Liverpool Philharmonic, the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the
London Philharmonic Orchestra, the
John Wilson Orchestra, the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the
BBC Concert Orchestra. He has also appeared at
The Proms at London's
Royal Albert Hall, where he is a regular performer. Ovenden made his
Carnegie Hall debut in 2014 and followed it up with another concert in 2015. Ovenden recorded a debut album for
Decca Records in 2013 titled
If You Stay and has since made a
Rodgers and Hammerstein record with
John Wilson for
Warner Classics and a
Downton Abbey Christmas record for
Warner Music that went double platinum. In late 2015, he signed a multiple record deal with
East West Records and his new album was released in February 2016. ==Personal life==