Matt Frewer
Born: January 4 1958
Where: Washington, Columbia, USA
The actor will always be revered as the face behind the synthetic visage of surreal popular culture commentator Max Headroom.
The character - decked out in shades and checked suits - started out on a Channel 4 music video show in Britain before enjoying success in the United States.
Raised in Canada, Frewer trained for the stage at Bristol's Old Vic and toured British repertory companies in The Glass Menagerie and Bent.
He made his big screen debut in 1983 in the Crimson Permanent Assurance segment of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
Minor roles followed in The Lords of Discipline, Supergirl and Spies Like Us before he was cast as Max Headroom in 1985.
For the next five years he capitalised on the character while also appearing in movies including Ishtar as a CIA agent as well as The Fourth Protocol.
Abandoning Max in 1989, Frewer went on to appear in Honey, I Shrunk The Kids and a series of less successful movies including Short Time and Twenty Bucks.
In 1993, he voiced the Pink Panther for the TV series while also appearing on the big screen in Senior Trip and Lawnmower Man 2.
For the rest of the decade he concentrated on American TV shows, with the exception of Breastmen and 6ix, before appearing in the successful 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead.
Recent work includes the role of Ned Glover in the drama A Home At The End of the World with Colin Farrell and Sissy Spacek.
