Matt King (comedian)

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This article is about the English actor and comedian. For the Australian rugby league player, see Matt King

Matt King is an actor and comedian who is most notable for his role in Peep Show, the British comedy, where he plays the crack-addicted Super Hans. He also appeared in the '"Brain" episode of Look Around You as a telephone engineer. In 2002, he co-wrote and starred in The Sofa of Time with Nick Frost. He also played many characters in the Channel 4 award winning comedy series Star Stories including Elton John and Guy Richie.

He has appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. One of his shows was disrupted by the fact that he had a devastating motorcycle injury immediately before the show started, but the show went on. Recently King also appeared in the BBC production Jekyll as the computer expert Freeman as a supporting character.

He most recently appeared in the E4 comedy 'Dog Face'

He co-stars in the movie Inkheart with Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis and Jim Broadbent. He also appeared in the third series of Doctor Who as Peter Streete.

There is a picture of him (amongst others) on UK Indie band Good Shoes' 7" single "Photos On My Wall", but whether this was submitted by himself or by someone else (the pictures on the single were sent in by fans) is unknown.