Biography

Anton Blake Horowitz began his career as an intern at the Space Theatre in South Africa, a rare performance arena whose works encouraged diversity and opposition to the Apartheid regime. Soon thereafter, he went into exile in the UK, and trained as an actor at the Drama Centre in London. Shortly after graduating he formed his own theatre company, performing in a wide range of plays, both classical and contemporary, in theatres across the country and in Berlin.

In 1989, he premiered in Robert Chessley's two-character play, Jerker, tracing the relationship of two gay men in the midst of the AIDS epidemic, directed by Stephen Daldry, the then-artistic director of the Gate Theatre, and in the following year Anton returned to his country of exile where he acted in theatre, opera and television, including appearing in the role of Mick in the Caretaker (the first time a Harold Pinter play had been performed in South Africa since the cultural boycott) and that of a White Supremacist assassin in a local series, the Game II.

He spent several years in the US, primarily in New York, acting in a variety of a theatre productions, before returning to the UK to work at the National Theatre Studio.

In the past decade he has worked in several BBC and ITV Productions, as well as a handful of international films. He also appears in a number of commercials and voice-overs in a number of countries. Besides primarily being an actor, Anton holds a Masters in Screenwriting from Royal Holloway, University of London.
- IMDb mini biography by: Rafe Daniel