Before he fell in love with movies and became an actor, Russell Tovey thought he wanted to be a history teacher. And while life eventually took the 43-year-old star down a considerably more ...

Tovey, who was born in 1981, talks about growing up gay and carrying around internalized shame. He says, “It’s so sad when you look back now that I, at the age of four, was having these ...

The Swans,’ FX | ‘Looking,’ HBO There are only two certainties we can rely on in such turbulent times: 1.) Water is wet and 2.) If Russell Tovey ‘s in something, we’ll be watching.

Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s Tovey says that at the time, there was also a distinct lack of role models, or “possibility models” (a term he first heard Laverne Cox use). The media was ...

And while life eventually took the 43-year-old star down a considerably more glamorous path, you could certainly say he’s managed to find a way to share some history lessons with the world.