Michael Socha
Biography
Michael Socha is an English actor born in Derby in 1987 and raised in Littleover. He attended the Central Junior Television Workshop before his breakthrough came in 2006, when Shane Meadows cast him as the school bully Harvey in the skinhead subculture film This Is England (2006). He went on to appear in Kenneth Glenaan's BAFTA Scotland award-winning film Summer and in Better Things (2008). On television he reprised Harvey in This Is England '86 and its sequels, and drew good critical notice as the young werewolf Tom McNair in Being Human, later becoming a main cast member. Other screen work includes the films The Unloved (2009), Spike Island (2012), Svengali (2013), and Papillon (2017), plus the spin-off series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. He also had a lead role in the E4 series The Aliens and was cast in Shane Meadows's period drama The Gallows Pole.
38years old
Turns 39 on December 13in 61 days
- Born Derby
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
- Also credited as Michael Robert Socha
Movie Career
- Films
- 13
- Career span
- 19 years2006 to 2025
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First role
Socha landed his first professional job with a small part in a short film. After that he was cast in several more small parts and hired an agent.
Big break
Socha landed his breakthrough role early on. In 2006, he played Harvey, a school bully, in Shane Meadows's film This Is England, which is set in skinhead subculture.
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