Raphael trained at Drama Centre London.

Theatre work include: The Player Kings (The Noel Coward); Beautiful Thing (Stratford East); Romeo and Juliet (The Almeida); Sons of the Prophet (Hampstead Theatre); First Touch (Nottingham Playhouse); The Seagull,Rage,Enron,The Last Ones,Twelfth Night and Yerma (all Drama Centre London), and The Jumper Factory (Young Vic).

Television work includes Doctors and The Marlowe Murder Club.