Overview
In a career that started as a plump teenager in ballet tights at RADA,
Michael has appeared in countless West End plays and musicals, presented
safety training workshops for sewage workers, and when resting, worked
as a crate smasher at a car factory. He’s done movies, soaps, ads, and
voice-overs, and worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Kelly
Osbourne. As the ultimate jobbing actor he’s flirted with triumph and
oblivion without ever quite managing either.
In The Rules of Acting he
shares his hard-won wisdom. Covering everything from learning your
lines to tilting for Oscar success in Hollywood, surviving a flop, to
why it’s advisable to read the whole script if you wish to avoid
improper relations with a pig, it’s the ultimate survival guide for
anyone contemplating a life in showbiz.