Darcy Grey trained at Drama Centre London. He was born in London, but spent most of his childhood in Spain making him fluent in both Spanish and English. Whilst at Drama Centre, Darcy appeared in Hamlet, Antigone, Till the Day I Die, Katzlemacher and The Betrayal directed by Mathew Burton. His training took him to Moscow at the Boris Schukin Institute where he appeared in a production of The Seagull directed by Irina Pakhomova [Vakhtangov Theatre]. He also performed Hamlet to an invited audience in Moscow directed by Paul Goodwin.