Matthew Cottle
Encyclopedia
Matthew Cottle is a British
film and television actor, best known for his part in the sitcom Game On, in which he played the ginger-haired, low self-esteem
ed, single banker Martin Henson. He has also appeared in many successful British TV series, including EastEnders
, Holby City
, Doctors
, Down to Earth and The Bill
.
.
's Chaplin (as Stan Laurel
), David Jones' A Christmas Carol
and Stephen Fry
's Bright Young Things
.
. In 2009 he appeared in all three of the plays forming the Ayckbourn at 70 season at Theatre Royal, Northampton. His roles were Neil in "Just Between Ourselves"; Stewart in "Private Fears in Public Places" and Ashley in "Man of the Moment".
He has also starred in An Evening with Gary Lineker
at the Darlington Civic Theatre.
supporter and has two children, a daughter born in 1997 and a son born in 2000.
United Kingdom
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film and television actor, best known for his part in the sitcom Game On, in which he played the ginger-haired, low self-esteem
Self-esteem
Self-esteem is a term in psychology to reflect a person's overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs and emotions such as triumph, despair, pride and shame: some would distinguish how 'the self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, the...
ed, single banker Martin Henson. He has also appeared in many successful British TV series, including EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
, Holby City
Holby City
Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
, Doctors
Doctors (BBC Soap Opera)
Doctors is a British daytime television soap opera, set in the fictional Midland town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the City of Birmingham. It was created by Chris Murray; Mal Young drove its development, and Carson Black was the original producer. The first episode was broadcast on...
, Down to Earth and The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
.
Early life and career
Cottle was born in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, and studied drama at Royal Academy of Dramatic ArtRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...
.
Film
Cottle appeared in Richard AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough , CBE is a British actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. As director and producer he won two Academy Awards for the 1982 film Gandhi...
's Chaplin (as Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
Arthur Stanley "Stan" Jefferson , better known as Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. His film acting career stretched between 1917 and 1951 and included a starring role in the Academy Award winning film...
), David Jones' A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol (1999 film)
A Christmas Carol is a 1999 television film adaptation of Charles Dickens's famous novel A Christmas Carol. It was directed by David Hugh Jones and stars Patrick Stewart as Ebenezer Scrooge and Richard E. Grant as Bob Cratchit...
and Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...
's Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry. The screenplay, based on the 1930 novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, provides satirical social commentary about the Bright Young People: young and carefree London aristocrats and bohemians, as well as society in...
.
Theatre
Cottle appeared in Macbeth at the Liverpool Everyman in 1995 and then went on to star in the stage show of Peter PanPeter Pan
Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie . A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with...
. In 2009 he appeared in all three of the plays forming the Ayckbourn at 70 season at Theatre Royal, Northampton. His roles were Neil in "Just Between Ourselves"; Stewart in "Private Fears in Public Places" and Ashley in "Man of the Moment".
Videos
Cottle starred in a data protection video in which he played a man attending a data protection conference who proceeded to make a collection of data protection gaffes. The most memorable scene involved Cottle's character popping out of the meeting to fax confidential documents to a chancer who had phoned him earlier in the day.He has also starred in An Evening with Gary Lineker
An Evening with Gary Lineker
An Evening with Gary Lineker is a 1991 stage play, adapted for television in 1994, by Arthur Smith and Chris England.The action takes place against the backdrop of the 1990 Football World Cup semi-final, between England and West Germany, which is taking place in Italy while Monica and Bill are on...
at the Darlington Civic Theatre.
Personal life
He is an ArsenalArsenal F.C.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
supporter and has two children, a daughter born in 1997 and a son born in 2000.
Television
- 1995 – Game On
- 1997 – Get Well SoonGet Well Soon (TV series)Get Well Soon was a short-lived 1997 BBC television comedy series starring Matthew Cottle and Eddie Marsan. Lasting only 6 episodes, it was about the everyday lives of a group of patients, doctors, nurses and other staff at a National Health Service hospital during the post-World War II period. The...
(1997)
Theatre
- 2004 – Season's GreetingsSeason's Greetings (play)Season's Greetings is a 1980 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is a black, though often farcical, comedy about a dysfunctional family Christmas, set over Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day in an average English suburban house....
– Clive, a suave writer - 2009 – Private Fears in Public PlacesPrivate Fears in Public PlacesPrivate Fears in Public Places is a 2004 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The bleakest play written by Ayckbourn for many years, it intimately follows a few days in the lives of six characters, in four tightly-interwoven stories through 54 scenes.In 2006, it was made into a film Cœurs,...
– Stewart, an estate agentEstate agentAn estate agent is a person or business that arranges the selling, renting or management of properties, and other buildings, in the United Kingdom and Ireland. An agent that specialises in renting is often called a letting or management agent... - 2011 - Dear Uncle
- 2011 - Neighbourhood Watch