Matthew Jure is a Canadian-British actor and musician who grew up on the south coast of England. After starting out in theatre, he moved into music and radio before returning to acting, first on stage and then on film. His critically acclaimed roles have included the amnesiac Man in arthouse film Undertow, obsessive-destructive mathematician Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the title role in Macbeth. Matthew has been nominated for five awards and has won three.
Matthews first leading stage role was Cripple, a disfigured orphan in Bill Owens The Ragged School, the true story of how Dr Barnardo came to open his orphanages.
Matthews guitar is called Dimples because of a pair of accidental indentations made by a squashed guitar case on his first flight to Hollywood.
The anticipation of something good has invariably been better than the,thing itself. Happily, for bad things the opposite has always held,true, too. .
