Anton Blake Horowitz

Anton Blake began his professional career as a 16-year-old, playing small roles in Athol Fugard's ground-breaking Space Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa. The company included such local luminaries as Leslee Udwin, Aletta Bezuidenhout, Sean Taylor and Fatima Dike. Two years later, he performed at London's Old Vic, playing Macheath in a Youth Production of The Beggar's Opera (John Gay). Shortly thereafter, he attended the Drama Centre, where contemporaries included Colin Firth and former Bond-girl, Maryam d'Abo. He has performed extensively onstage in London, Edinburgh, New York, Johannesburg and Berlin, where noteworthy roles have included Mick in The Caretaker (Pinter), Cassius in Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), Martin Taylor in Brimstone & Treacle (Dennis Potter) and AA in Emigrants (Mroszek); eminent directors he has worked with include Luc Bondy and Stephen Daldry.