Peter Wingfield is a Welsh born actor. He began acting as a teenager at the National Youth Theatre in Wales but following family, he attended medical school at Brasenose College, Oxford and St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. He chose an acting career, however, just prior to graduation, and his drama training was at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. On leaving drama school in 1990, Peter made his television debut as a taxi driver in the Screen Two production of Antonia and Jane, a role he managed to earn on the strength of his ability to drive, before going on to play lead roles in three successive television series: Granada TV's Medics, in which, ironically, he played a medical student; Soldier Soldier for Central TV; and The Men's Room for BBC TV.