Rudi has completed shooting the lead role in Wakefield, a new 8 part series for ABC, directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse. He will then shoot Extinction, a new series for Sky written by Joe Barton. He grew up in Maidstone, Kent, attending Vinters Boys School and Invicta Grammar School. He then joined the National Youth Theatre. He was a former county table tennis player. He has since performed in numerous productions at the National Theatre. In 2013 he played the male lead in David Greig's two-hander, The Events for the Young Vic. The Play won numerous awards and was voted The Guardian's best play of 2013. He has since performed in plays at the Royal court and the Almeida Theatre. Notably Oresteia and Mary Stuart, the later of which was directed by Olivier Award winner Robert Icke. He played the male lead role of Mortimer alongside Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams. Both Oresteia and Mary Stuart both opened to huge critical acclaim. He performed in the record breaking production of Hamlet at the Barbican in 2015 playing Guilderstern alongside Benedict Cumberbatch.