Stephen Moyer's secret Vampire past revealed

Usually in these posts we try and reveal the name behind a face you've seen on TV only to spend fruitless hours trying to remember who they are, and where you saw them. Today however, we're going slightly off-road because you already know who Stephen Moyer is.

He's Bill Compton, the vampire-with-a-heart going out with Anna Paquin's lonely waitress in hit blood-sucking drama True Blood. With his molasses smooth drawl, chiselled looks and Southern charm you'd be forgiven for thinking Moyer is a born-and-bred American, but you could not be more wrong.

He was in fact born and raised in Brentwood, and True Blood isn't his first outing playing the undead, as keen-eyed fans of Channel 4's 1998 Underworld-meets-Spooks mini-series, Ultraviolet, can attest. The show peddled a nice line in mixing the supernatural with a spy thriller, and whilst Moyer wasn't the main star he's easily identifiable.

Sporting an unlikely bouffant that made him look like Oscar Wilde and Hugh Grant's lovechild, he played Jack Beresford, a corrupt cop and a Vampire - or 'Code V'. Check out episode one Habeas Corpus, to see him menacing former best friend Jack Davenport and the series finale, Persona Non Grata.

I won't tell you what happens, you'll just have to watch it. Whilst you're at it why not let us know what you thought? Should we get more vampire dramas, less, did you think it was good? I thought it was pretty good, even if the effects haven't really stood the test of time amazingly well. Spooks obviously owes a bit of debt to it, and I'm always happy to watch Susannah Harker in anything...

True Blood is on Channel 4, 11.00pm, Thursdays
Watch Ultraviolet anytime, for free on SeeSaw