After studying for a degree in English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, Eliot trained as an actor at GSA. Over the past 35 years he has worked in Theatre, Film, T.V. and Opera.

Acting credits include Sherlock Holmes the Hunt for Moriarty (Blackeyed Theatre), In and Out of Chekhov's Shorts (Dragonboy Prods/Southwark Playhouse - awarded OFFIE), The Tempest (Dragonboy Prods/British Council nominated for the Gran Premio de España de Artes Escénicas), William Hawkins in The Hamlet Voyage (Bristol Harbour Festival/Bridewell Theatre), Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall), the Priest in Melly Still’s production of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, penned for the stage by Rona Munro (Harold Pinter Theatre, West End and National tour), playing the title role in The Beekeeper (Blackeyed Theatre/Waterloo East) for which he received a Best Actor OFFIE nomination, Alice in Wonderland (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Alarms and Excursions (Chipping Norton), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Liverpool Playhouse Nottingham Playhouse), Il Turco In Italia (Royal Opera House); Measure for Measure (Thelma Holt Productions); A Small Family Business (Watford Palace Theatre); Don’t Look Now (Lyric Hammersmith); The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare's Globe); Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange Manchester); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Horse and Carriage (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Black Dahlia, Buried Alive, The Cherry Orchard, Demons and Dybbuks (Method & Madness); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Nuffield Theatre Southampton); The Government Inspector (Salisbury Playhouse); Man for Hire (Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough); The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe (Library Theatre Manchester); Oxygen (Tricycle Theatre). 

T.V. work : Mind Games (ITV) and Egypt (S4C). 

Film work : Slow Horses (Apple TV) Nine (Lucamar/ Weinstein); Night Swimming (Tri-Star); DIY Hard (British Film Foundation); Cake (Subrosa Films); The Security Control Room (Pukka Films)