Matt Henry

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Award-winning West End actor, singer, songwriter, and artist.

He was awarded an MBE in the Queens New Year’s Honours list (2017) for his work in Musical Theatre. Also, that year Matt received a Grammy nomination for his solo performance on The London Kinky Boots cast recording. In (2016) he was Winner of The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Lola in Kinky Boots and voted by London theatre goers as Best Actor in a Musical at the WhatsOnStage Awards (2016).

Matt has also toured the UK promoting his debut album Red Flare supporting Grammy and Tony winning pop icon, Cyndi Lauper back in 2016. His debut album Red Flare was recorded live at the studio of Dan Gillespie Sells (The Feeling) and produced by Mr Hudson and is now available to purchase on iTunes.

Previous theatre credits include: Drifters Girl (Garrick theatre)  Hushabye Mountain (Hope Mill), Our Lady of Blundellsands (Liverpool Empire), One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse), The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare’s Globe), Avenue Q (Noël Coward Theatre and UK tour); Lion King (Lyceum); Miss Saigon (UK tour); Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria); Hair (UK tour); The Rat Pack Live from Vegas (Adelphi and UK tour) The Harder They Come (Stratford East and UK tour); The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (Royal & Derngate) and The Frontline (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Matt is currently the Associate Director of The Drifters Girl UK Tour and can be seen in the 2022 film release of Matilda ‘The Musical’ directed by Matthew Warchus.