Michael Matus

Training: RADA.

Theatre credits include: La Cage aux Folles (Park Theatre); King Lear (West End); Richard III (Headlong); Broken Glass (Watford Palace); The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); Uncle Max in The Sound of Music (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park); Taboo (with Boy George); Wonderful Town (tour with Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé); The Return of the Soldier (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Baker’s Wife (The Union); Lend Me a Tenor (West End); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Christmas Carol (West End); Oklahoma! (Chichester); The Canterbury Tales and Eastward Ho! (RSC in the West End); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Timon of Athens (Globe); Rough Crossings (Headlong); Imagine This (New London); The Comedy of Errors and The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Crucible). Television includes: Endeavour, The Split (ITV); Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators, The Dom Joly Show, A Prince Among Men, EastEnders (BBC); Invasion (Apple TV); Extinction (Sky); Marilyn Monroe (Netflix).

Film includes: The Crying Game and A Muppet Christmas Carol. He has been nominated for a TMA Award, a WhatsOnStage Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a BroadwayWorld Award and an Off West End Award, and jointly won an Olivier for Best Acting Ensemble with RSC.