Anton Blake Horowitz

About Anton Blake Horowitz

Anton Blake began his professional career as a 16-year-old, playing small roles in Athol Fugard's ground-breaking Space Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa. The company included such local luminaries as Leslee Udwin, Aletta Bezuidenhout, Sean Taylor and Fatima Dike.Two years later, he performed at London's Old Vic, playing Macheath in a Youth Production of The Beggar's Opera (John Gay). Shortly thereafter, he attended the Drama Centre, where contemporaries included Colin Firth and former Bond-girl, Maryam d'Abo.He has performed extensively onstage in London, Edinburgh, New York, Johannesburg and Berlin, where noteworthy roles have included Mick in The Caretaker (Pinter), Cassius in Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), Martin Taylor in Brimstone & Treacle (Dennis Potter) and AA in Emigrants (Mroszek); eminent directors he has worked with include Luc Bondy and Stephen Daldry.Anton played the vengeful aristocrat, Montresor, in Mario Cavalli's award-winning film The Cask of Amontillado, (based on Edgar Allan Poe's eerie short story); he has also appeared in a number of films and television series, most recently for the BBC, where roles have included Horatio Nelson's best friend, Henry Blackwood and heart-transplant pioneer, Christiaan Barnaard, in an upcoming dramatized documentary. His ability with accents has ensured a growing career as voice-over artist where he has played various Russians, Germans and Americans for international commercials.::anonymous
In 2020, Anton Blake Horowitz decided to go back to the name he began with when he joined the profession in 1979. After decades of working in the theatre and on the screen under the name of Anton Blake he finally reached the conclusion that, at this stage in his career, he should embrace his origins with pride. "In the late 80's" he told a journalist, "I was told by a leading agent that the surname of Horowitz was 'too Jewish' for me to excel as an actor with: remember, this was a time when authenticity - especially when that meant ethnic diversity or sexuality - was not exactly embraced in the UK industry; it was a very different environment to what it is today".The full force of the pandemic has affected many people in the creative industries profoundly, and possibly the foundations of the industry itself. Anton has expressed his hopes that especially live performances can return like the phoenix from the flames - with new values, new appreciation for the process from a position of authenticity and the embracing of diversity....

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