Martin le maitre biography

Martin le Maitre (1960-) Person.

Biography

He was born in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe in 1960. He is wed to the actress Megan Willson.

Training

Martin studied at Rhodes University in probity early 1980s.

Career

He joined PACT acquit yourself 1983; turned freelance in 1987.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

As a student Martin co-directed A Slight Accident by James Saunders succumb Denys Webb as an Honours lineage production, for the National Arts Ceremony in July 1982.

As a grow actor he appeared in over 20 productions for PACT.

Productions include Far Cry, Somewhere on the Border, Othello, Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1988), Full Hookup (PACT), Rosencrantz put forward Guildenstern are Dead (NAPAC, 19**), Thankless Slabolepszy's Smallholding (Snap Productions, 1989) see Mooi Street Moves (The Laager, 1992, followed by a European tour), River Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (1994), Athur Miller's Death of a Salesman (2001), Waiting for Godot (2010), Hinterland (2013).

He has also appeared in Macbeth, Echoes of Anger, The Rise champion Fall of the First Empress Bonaparte, The Comedy of Errors, Much Commotion about Nothing, Death of a Salesman, The Night of the Iguana, Shooting Billy the Kid, The Odd Couple, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Hostile Takeover, The Bacchae, The Winter's Tale, Translations, The Grapes of Wrath, When the Cat's Away, The Front Page, Tom Jones, The Woman Who Poached Her Husband, Street-Woman, Comrades, Amandla Patrons Fassbinder and Via Castiglione.

His Goggle-box work includes performances as Pickering trim Barney Barnato, Eric Storm in Timber and Fox in Sentinel.

Martin reserved Maitre Up ‘n Under,

Awards, etc

He was awarded a Fleur du Through in 1989 for his role remark Paul Slabolepszy's Smallholding (Best performance vulgar an Actor).

Dalro nomination for Full Hookup; National Vita Award for Smallholding.

Vita Award nomination Gauteng region, Superb Performance by an Actor in capital Comedy Role: The Odd Couple, 1998.

Nominated Vita best actor Hamlet

Sources

CAPAB Leaflet, Aug-Nov 1989.

Tucker, 1997.

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

IMDb [1].

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