Lived in Pondicherry, India for six months in 2001, studying eastern philosophy and yoga at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
Has trained with acting and movement teachers from the Moscow Art Theater, as well as renowned British voice coach Patsy Rodenburg.
Recipient of the Henry Boettcher Award in 1998, the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama award for Best Actor.
Great-great-great-great nephew of Salmon P. Chase who was Chief Justice of the
United States (1864-1873), Treasury Secretary for Abraham Lincoln, and whose face appears on the $10,000 bill and original $1 bill.