Irvine earned a reputation as a method actor after he went for two months without food, losing around two stone (13 kg), and performed his own torture scene stunts in The Railway Man (2013). He has since starred in The Woman in Black: Angel of Death (2015), and portrayed Daniel Grigori in the direct-to-video film adaptation of the young adult novel Fallen (2016).\n', '

Irvine was born and raised in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire. His mother, Bridget Smith, is a Liberal Democrat councillor on the South Cambridgeshire District Council, and his father, Chris Smith, is an engineer. Irvine also has two younger brothers, Lawrence and Toby, the latter a child actor who portrays the young Pip in Great Expectations. Irvine\'s stage surname was his grandfather\'s first name. His great-grandfather, Sir Ralph Lilley Turner, wrote the quotation used as the inscription on the Gurkha Memorial, London.\n', '

He started acting at the age of 16. Irvine states that it was his drama teacher who inspired him to pursue acting: "I never fitted in, which led me to acting. I was looking for something different." He played Romeo along with other main roles in plays whilst attending Bedford Modern School, followed by a run with the National Youth Theatre.\n', '

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