TV star Mat Fraser to play drama's most famous disabled villain

American Horror Story star Fraser, who has phocomelia of his arms due to morning sickness drug Thalidomide, will take centre stage in Northern Broadsides’s artistic director Barrie Rutter’s production at Hull Truck Theatre, as part of the Hull City of Culture 2017 programme.Most recently he co-starred in the fourth series of the hit TV series American Horror Story: Freak Show and has just finished playing Roger in Peter Farrelly's new TV comedy Loudermilk for US TV.Other credits include Beauty and the Beast with partner Julie Atlas Muz, which has toured the UK, and played in New York, Adelaide and Chicago.Fraser, who hosted the Paralympics 2012 opening ceremony, said he hoped to bring a “deep understanding of a life lived differently” to drama’s most famous disabled villain.Rutter said he was an actor "of scintillating physicality and vocal power" and his return to stage "heralds a shivering frisson of excitement."

The production runs at Hull Truck Theatre from May 4 to May 27 and then at the Viaduct Theatre, Halifax, from May 30 to June 4.