French-born English actor James Dreyfus won the Best Supporting Performance in a Musical Olivier Award for his role in the National’s The Lady in the Dark in 1998. He’s best known to TV audiences for his British comedy characters, Constable Kevin Goody Ben Elton’s The Thin Blue Line, and as Kathy Burke’s gay flatmate Tom in Gimme Gimme Gimme. James has just finished a sell out run of Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide at the Menier Chocolate Factory, playing three crazy stereotypes Dr Pangloss, Cacambo and Martin.