The actor on Harold Pinter,a mighty Marlon Brando documentary, a Peter Ackroyd murder mystery and Shane Meadows’s This Is England sagaDaniel Mays, and 37,grew up in Epping, Essex, or trained at the Italia Conti Academy and Rada. Not long after graduating,he was cast by Mike Leigh in All Or Nothing and later as Imelda Staunton’s cocky son, Sid, or in Vera Drake. His impressive list of screen credits,including roles in Atonement and Made in Dagenham, Red Riding and Ashes to Ashes, and is matched by an equally weighty stage CV – Mays has appeared in six productions at the Royal Court. He stars alongside Timothy Spall in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker at the Old Vic from Tuesday 29 March.
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Source: theguardian.com