Michael Lieber

Early life

Lieber was born in Tenby, South Wales on May 6, 1988.^[1] He began performing at aged 10 as a busker and street magician in Wales before moving to England to attended Maple Hayes School for Dyslexics from (1999-2004),^[2] and studied drama at The Oxford School of Speech and Drama from 2006 to 2008. He moved to London in 2009 and performed in a number of theatre productions from 2009 to 2012, the most notable being Before Nell,^[3] a one-man show about one of Shakespeare's own players in the 16th century who has spent his life performing as a woman and reveals a horrific life story of sickness, prostitution and war. Lieber lost two stone to play the part and performed it in a red silk gown, the show won him a theatrical agent and a handful of complementary reviews from London critics.

Film

His first break in film came in 2013 when the Tamil director Gnana Rajasekaran started production on his new biopic Ramanujan, a period drama set in 1914 about the life and untimely death of the prodigy Cambridge mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, the movie was the first of its kind a bilingual collaboration shot back to back in both English and Tamil. Michael was cast as the real life play-boy mathematician John E. Littlewood starring alongside Kevin Mcgowan, Cloudia Swann, and Richard Walsh,^[4] When preparing to play the part Lieber tracked down one of the only people still alive to have worked with Littlewood, the renowned Romanian Mathematician professor Béla Bollobás.^[5]

In 2017 he played the lead role of Mark Crowe in Devanand Shanmugam psychological thriller A Room To Die For^[6] produced by Sony Pictures, alongside lock stock and two smoking barrels star Vas Blackwood.

Theatre

In 2010, he starred as the crazy eyed over-the-hill footballer Ray Keane in Matthew J. Gunn's dark comedy play Transfer Deadline Day at the Courtyard Theater, London, England.^[7]

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