Max Bennett

Max was born in Leytonstone, London and studied French and Italian at Queens' College, Cambridge. He claims to have caught the acting bug aged 12, when his school needed a little person to play Puck in its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The sixth form girls' fawning over him and backcombing his hair had him hooked for life. He went on to train with the National Youth Theatre and at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He has worked extensively in London theatre, playing leading roles in the West End and for such companies as the Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse, Shakespeare's Globe, Almeida, Young Vic and National Theatres, winning an Ian Charleson award along the way. His television roles have included messianic martyr Robert Southwell in Will for TNT, and notorious rake Monk Adderley in Poldark for the BBC. On film he's played privileged junkie Brown in Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen, and charmer David in the Oscar-winning Bohemian Rhapsody.