Actor Matt Greenwood was sent to drama classes at the age of six after struggling with shyness. He never imagined that one day it would lead to a role in an Oscar-winning film.
Matt, 25, was once so shy, he even couldn't ask for tomato ketchup at McDonald's. His mum Debbie decided he needed a confidence boost.
The Manchester actor went on to play the first transgender character in a family drama in the Rochdale-based BBC One school drama Waterloo Road.
And he stars in a powerful and pivotal moment in the 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody - the biographical drama about Queen frontman Freddie Mercury which scooped four Oscars, two Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards.
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