Hugh has had a long and distinguished career in theatre, film, radio and television. 

TV credits include Outlander, series 5,6 and & 7 as Arch Bug, The Team with Lars Mikkelsen, An Honourable Woman, Poirot, Absolutely Fabulous, Midsomer Murders, The Palace, and notably as Major Mungo Munro in Sharpe’s Gold, Sharpe’s Battle and Sharpe’s Sword. 

Hugh’s films include Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, Patriot Games (with Harrison Ford), Trainspotting, Charlotte Gray (with Cate Blanchett), Before You Go (with Tom Wilkinson and Julie Walters), The Four Feathers (with Heath Ledger), and most recently The Iron Lady and Sunset Song.

Recent theatre productions include The Vortex at Chichester Festival Theatre, Twilight Song at the Park Theatre,  Malvolio in Twelfth Night for English Touring Theatre, Macbeth with James McAvoy at the Trafalgar Theatre, Hamlet with John Simm at the Crucible Sheffield,  5/11 at Chichester, Pyrenees for Paine’s Plough at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Pinter’s The New World Order at the Brighton Festival, and Waste at the Almeida Theatre. Hugh has also appeared frequently at the RSC and the National Theatre.

For Cahoots Theatre Company, he recently rediscovered and directed a revival of J.B. Priestley’s The Roundabout, at the Park Theatre, London, which subsequently transferred to 59E59th Street Theaters and where it was the New York Times’ Critics’ Pick. Hugh has also redirected several times the West End production of The Mousetrap at the St. Martin’s Theatre.