Matthew Cottle

Matthew Cottle (born 16 February 1967) is an English film, stage, radio and television actor. He is best known for his role in Citizen Khan as Dave. Early life Cottle was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and studied drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1990 with an Acting (RADA Diploma). Film Cottle appeared in Richard Attenborough's 1992 Chaplin (as Stan Laurel), and in David Jones' 1999 adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Cottle also appeared in The Personal History of David Copperfield in 2019. Theatre Cottle's recent theatre work includes The Deep Blue Sea and The Chalk Garden at Chichester Festival Theatre, Wonderland at the Nottingham Playhouse, How the Other Half Loves at the Haymarket Theatre and the Duke of York's, Our Country's Good, A Small Family Business The Habit of Art at the National Theatre and Quartermaine's Terms, directed by Richard Eyre, at Wyndham's Theatre. Cottle also appeared in A Chorus Of Disapproval, directed by Trevor Nunn (Harold Pinter Theatre), and Comic Potential, directed by Alan Ayckbourn (Lyric Theatre).