Matthew Cottle


Matthew Cottle is an English film, stage, radio and television actor.

Early life

Cottle was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and studied drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Film

Cottle appeared in Richard Attenborough's 1992 Chaplin, and in David Jones' 1999 adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Cottle also appeared in The Personal History of David Copperfield in 2019.

Theatre

Cottle's recent theatre work includes The Deep Blue Sea and The Chalk Garden at Chichester Festival Theatre, Wonderland at the Nottingham Playhouse, How the Other Half Loves at the Haymarket Theatre and the Duke of York's, Our Country's Good, A Small Family Business The Habit of Art at the National Theatre and Quartermaine's Terms, directed by Richard Eyre, at Wyndham's Theatre. Cottle also appeared in A Chorus Of Disapproval, directed by Trevor Nunn, and Comic Potential, directed by Alan Ayckbourn.
Other theatre roles include Communicating Doors Menier Chocolate Factory Neighbourhood Watch, Racing Demon, Taking Steps, What the Women Did at the Southwark Playhouse and several tours and seasons at repertory theatres up and down the country.

Television

Cottle has appeared as a regular in a number of television series, including Murder on the Blackpool Express, two series of The Windsors for Channel 4, three series as Martin in BBC Two's Bafta-nominated flat-share sitcom Game On and four series of Citizen Khan. He has also appeared as a regular in several other series, including Fried, Get Well Soon, A Perfect State and Life Begins.
Cottle has also appeared in many other TV shows, including Endeavour for ITV, Defending the Guilty for BBC2, Outlander for Amazon Prime, Pure for Channel 4, Plebs for ITV 2, Unforgotten for ITV, The Dresser, Channel 4's Man Down, Dave's comedy series Hoff the Record, The Job Lot, Holby City. Doctors and Pramface.

Personal life

He is an Arsenal supporter and has two children, a daughter Hannah born in 1997 and a son Harry born in 2000.