Matthew Cottle (born 16 February 1967) 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-esteemed, single banker Martin Henson.[1] He has also appeared in many successful British TV series, including EastEnders, Holby City, Doctors, Down to Earth and The Bill.
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Cottle was born in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, and studied drama at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[2]
Cottle appeared in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin (as Stan Laurel), David Jones' A Christmas Carol and Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things.
Cottle appeared in Macbeth at the Liverpool Everyman in 1995 and then went on to star in the stage show of Peter Pan. 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".[3]
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 at the Darlington Civic Theatre.[1]
He is an Arsenal supporter and has two children, a daughter born in 1997 and a son born in 2000.[1]