1. Michael Robert Socha was born on 1987 and is an English actor.
32 Facts About Michael Socha
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Michael Socha is known for his roles in the films This Is England and Summer, and the television series This Is England '86 and its sequels.
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Michael Socha appeared in Being Human, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, and the second series of the BBC One drama Showtrial.
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Michael Robert Socha was born in 1987 in Derby, Derbyshire, England, to Kathleen Lyons and Robert Socha.
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Michael Socha is the older brother of actress Lauren Socha, star of the Channel 4 comedy-drama Misfits.
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Michael Socha asked her son and daughter if they wanted to try out for it, and both did.
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Michael Socha won the lead role of Bugsy Malone in the play.
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Michael Socha acted in several plays for the group, but did not take acting very seriously.
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Michael Socha enrolled in the course when he was 14, but was almost refused admission as he had failed to learn the monologue for his audition and was put in the "reserve group".
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Michael Socha says the workshop had a strong impact on him, and he began working hard at acting.
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Michael Socha was quickly cast in several small parts subsequently, and hired an agent.
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Michael Socha's father had a long history of alcohol abuse, and his parents separated.
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In 2004, Robert Michael Socha died of an alcohol-related heart attack.
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Michael Socha liked drama, English, and history courses and received his GCSEs in those three subjects.
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Michael Socha worked at two other factories after leaving school, as well as at a car wash.
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Michael Socha worked as a labourer for his uncle's bricklaying firm, mixing mortar for the bricklayers, but as he was constantly taking time off work at the last moment to attend auditions he quit working full-time and dedicated himself to acting.
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Michael Socha appeared in three episodes of the BBC One medical drama Casualty.
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In February 2009, Michael Socha made his stage debut at Nottingham Playhouse in Glamour, a comedy by Stephen Lowe.
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That same year, Michael Socha appeared in an episode of the television comedy Married Single Other as well as the film Bonded by Blood.
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Michael Socha appeared in the This Is England Christmas special, and in a music video with American soul music singer Lauren Pritchard.
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Michael Socha appeared in BBC Three hit supernatural series Being Human in 2011, receiving good critical notice as the innocent young werewolf Tom McNair.
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Michael Socha missed his audition after a taxicab hit him and fled the scene while he was helping a friend move furniture across a road in Normanton.
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Michael Socha won the role of Tom, a young werewolf who has been brought up in the wild by his father and taught to hunt vampires.
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Michael Socha has admitted that he can get carried away while performing some of his more physically demanding scenes.
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Michael Socha has received at least seven minor injuries requiring medical treatment and reporting to authorities.
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Michael Socha was upgraded from a recurring role to the main cast for the fourth series of Being Human, after the previous main cast, including Tovey, left the show.
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Michael Socha appeared in the music video to the Jake Bugg song "Seen It All" and in the music video to the Lauren Pritchard song "Stuck".
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In 2013, Michael Socha portrayed the Knave of Hearts in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, a spin-off to the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time.
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Michael Socha starred in Chris Coghill's film Spike Island, based upon The Stone Roses gig of the same name.
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Michael Socha starred in the film Svengali in which he played a guitarist in a band and in the film Twenty8k in which he played a drug dealer.
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In 2017, Michael Socha starred in Double Date and a remake of the 1973 film Papillon, as well as playing King Richard III in the music video titled 'ill Ray ' by British Indie rock group Kasabian.
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In 2021, the BBC announced that Michael Socha had been cast as "King" David Hartley, leader of the Cragg Vale Coiners, in Shane Meadows' period drama, The Gallows Pole.