1. Matthew Waterhouse was born on 19 December 1961 and is an English actor and writer, best known for his role as Adric in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1980 to 1982.
21 Facts About Matthew Waterhouse
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Matthew Waterhouse was a great fan of Doctor Who in his younger days, claiming that he was "obsessed" with the show.
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Matthew Waterhouse was the youngest actor to play a companion and Doctor Who was only his second professional acting role.
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Matthew Waterhouse played the schoolboy Briarley in the BBC2 adaptation of To Serve Them All My Days with John Duttine, and it was only shortly before he filmed his appearance on the miniseries that he found out he had secured the role of Adric.
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Matthew Waterhouse took part in audio commentaries for the DVD releases of Earthshock, The Visitation, The Keeper of Traken, Four to Doomsday, Black Orchid, Full Circle, State of Decay and Kinda.
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Matthew Waterhouse read the audiobook of the Target Books The Visitation for the BBC as well as Full Circle, Four to Doomsday and some Doctor Who Annual short stories.
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On 31 July 2013, Big Finish Productions announced that Matthew Waterhouse would be returning to play the role of Adric in a series of Fifth Doctor audio plays, beginning in 2014 with the Fifth Doctor Box Set followed by, so far, two trilogies of stories and the adaptation of Fifth Doctor and Seventh Doctor crossover novel Cold Fusion.
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Matthew Waterhouse has performed several Short Trips such as the award-winning A Full Life.
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In November 2013 Matthew Waterhouse appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five Doctors Reboot.
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In 2016 Matthew Waterhouse visited the locations for Black Orchid to record his Myth Makers interview DVD.
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Matthew Waterhouse guested on a number of shows after it was announced that he would be playing Adric.
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Matthew Waterhouse guested on Peter Davison's This Is Your Life and Children in Need with a range of Doctor Who actors.
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Coincidentally, McCoy played the Seventh Doctor, although Matthew Waterhouse had left the show several years before.
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Matthew Waterhouse has appeared in a wide range of theatre productions in the UK, and has appeared in the Shakespeare productions A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Macbeth and Hamlet.
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Matthew Waterhouse appeared in theatre productions of I Am David, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Peter Pan and Torch Song Trilogy.
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Matthew Waterhouse wrote and appeared in his own one-man show Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which was directed by actor Murray Melvin.
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Matthew Waterhouse appeared as John Cunningham alongside David Selby in the Dark Shadows audio story The Creeping Fog.
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Matthew Waterhouse wrote a Dark Shadows audio story Old Acquaintance which was performed by David Selby.
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Matthew Waterhouse has written two Doctor Who Audio Novels, Watchers and Prisoners of London.
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Matthew Waterhouse lived in Greenwich, Connecticut in the United States from 1998 until 2016, although he regularly visited the UK.
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Matthew Waterhouse has since returned to live full-time in the UK with his American husband.