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After starting his career in theatre and radio, Hughes landed his first big television role in 2018 with the Netflix series The Innocents, in the series regular role of Ryan McDaniel.
In 2022, he played disability activist Alan Holdsworth in the BBC's Then Barbara Met Alan; The Independent's reviewer said that "Hughes is excellent as the emotionally unstable and tense Holdsworth". In the same year, he took the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Richard III, being the first disabled actor to do so. The Guardian's reviewer said that "Hughes's Richard is every bit the schemer, dead-eyed and ... read more