Rigby graduated from the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2012. He is best known for his role as Police Constable, later Police Sergeant and Detective Sergeant
Jim Strange in
Endeavour, the prequel series to
Inspector Morse, from its inception in 2012 to 2023. A
New York Times reviewer said Rigby's interpretation of Strange "brings a vulpine grace" to the character. In the 2017-aired British
historical drama television mini-series,
Gunpowder, Rigby played
William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, who received a letter, maybe or maybe not self-penned, warning of the
Gunpowder Plot. In 2015, Rigby played the
security guard Moe in a production of
Alistair McDowall's
Pomona at the
National Theatre, Temporary Theatre, which had previously opened at the
Orange Tree Theatre in
Richmond in 2014. The show, which included Rigby as a security guard's "troubled accomplice", was reviewed in
The Guardian by
Michael Billington, who gave the production three stars.
Henry Hitchings of the
Evening Standard felt Rigby's character was "especially unsettling". In 2015, Rigby appeared as Henry in a 13-minute short drama
Isabella. In 2017, he starred as the only character in the four-minute
short film,
Crossing Seas. ==References==