Training

Michael Shaeffer trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: The Grapes of Wrath, Grenfell: in the words of survivors, London Road, Table and The Threepenny Opera

In London’s West End: The Beautiful Game and Oliver!

Other theatre includes: Tom Fool at the Orange Tree; Maryland at Stratford East; A Very Expensive Poison, Girl from the North Country and All About My Mother at the Old Vic; How to Hold Your Breath and Friday Night Sex at the Royal Court; The Iliad, Little Revolution and Mr Burns at the Almeida; The Vote at the Donmar; Godchild at Hampstead; and Of Mice and Men at the Mercury, Colchester

TV

Bodies, The Sixth Commandment, SAS Rogue Heroes, Karen Pirie, La Fortuna, The Salisbury Poisonings, Chernobyl, The ABC Murders, Bodyguard, Rellik, Trauma, Oasis, Taboo, Vera, Grantchester, New Tricks, SS-GB, The Last Panthers, Foyle’s War, Luther, Black Mirror: The Waldo Moment, Mrs Biggs, Game of Thrones and Parade’s End

Film

Molly vs The Machines, Kraven the Hunter, All the Old Knives, Star Wars: Rogue One, London Fields, Trance, London Road, Anna Karenina, Broken and Kingdom of Heaven

(Updated July 2024. Photograph by Phil Sharp)