Hans Matheson was born on 7 August 1975 and is a Scottish actor and musician.
16 Facts About Hans Matheson
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Hans Matheson's parents were Sheena, a therapist, and Iain, a folk musician and painter.
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Hans Matheson's late younger brother, William Matheson, was an actor.
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Hans Matheson disliked school and prompted by his mother enrolled and studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, London.
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Hans Matheson had created the same role in the stage premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in July 1995.
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Hans Matheson followed the film Mojo with Stella Does Tricks, playing a young male prostitute hooked on drugs who befriends Stella, a 15 year old prostitute.
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Hans Matheson continued with a leading role in the British hit Tube Tales, which led to his first commercialized film, Bodywork, starring as a market trader framed for murder, with Beth Winslet, Charlotte Coleman, and Clive Russell.
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Hans Matheson played a private in the trenches in the 2002 horror war film Deathwatch, then in early 2004 he starred as an alcoholic in rehab in the television docu-film Comfortably Numb, which he later described as "his proudest role".
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In 2006, Hans Matheson co-starred as a lighthouse-keeper who has a romance with murder mystery author Demi Moore in the film Half Light.
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Hans Matheson then portrayed the Earl of Essex in a BBC production about Queen Elizabeth I of England called The Virgin Queen, broadcast in the US in 2005 and the UK in 2006.
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Hans Matheson then played Argive archer Ixas in the 2010 Clash of the Titans remake.
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Hans Matheson considered the film more as a "romantic comedy", and not a message of Christian faith, and was drawn to the idea of an authority figure, vicar, who humbly realises that there is much more for him to learn.
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Hans Matheson had a supporting role as Aeschylus in 300: Rise of an Empire, which required him to get fit in about ten weeks through hard-core training.
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Hans Matheson admitted that he had occasionally taken jobs that weren't his first choice in order to make ends meet.
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Hans Matheson acknowledged that he was occasionally nervous when performing, wishing that he could be in control of himself, adding that in acting one has to "let go" and that "you can't guarantee what happens".
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An early interviewer noted that Hans Matheson was ambivalent about becoming famous, and in 2002 he again expressed his concern at becoming "a media face, someone who's well known by people he doesn't know".