Michael Socha

Michael Socha

Born: December 13, 1987
in Derby, Derbyshire, England
Michael Socha (born December 13, 1987) is an English actor, best known for his role in the Channel 4 drama television series This Is England '86, and a role in the Channel 4 drama The Unloved. He attended Burton College, Saint Benedict Catholic School, Derby and he trained with the Chellaston Youth Players. He was also seen in the BBC Three horror-drama series Being Human in 2011. He is the older brother of actress Lauren Socha who stars in Channel 4 comedy-drama, Misfits.

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Jericho Ridge
Title: Jericho Ridge
Character: Earl
Released: April 25, 2024
Type: Movie
North Washington county sheriff Tabby finds herself alone in the sheriff’s office one night while her colleagues are out on patrol, but she soon finds out they’ve been set up by a murderous drug cartel while she herself comes under siege at the office, where she must battle desperately to save herself and her son.
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Showpony
Title: Showpony
Released: January 20, 2024
Type: Movie
An actor tries to record a self tape with the "help" of her jealous boyfriend.
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Distressing Images
Title: Distressing Images
Released: September 6, 2023
Type: Movie
A content moderator for a social media site begins to suspect his young son is hiding violent tendencies when their family pet is mysteriously wounded.
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Title: The Gallows Pole: This Valley Will Rise
Character: David Hartley
Released: May 31, 2023
Type: TV
Set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in eighteenth century Yorkshire, the drama follows David Hartley as he assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.
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The Other Me
Title: The Other Me
Character: Girogi
Released: March 13, 2023
Type: Movie
The life of a young architect is thrown into turmoil when he's diagnosed with a rare eye disease. As his condition worsens, he questions his life and career choices, and his relationship to his frustrated wife becomes more strained.
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Big Boys Don’t Cry
Title: Big Boys Don’t Cry
Character: Paul Connolly
Released: September 5, 2022
Type: Movie
Based on true events, Paul is forced to recall his harrowing childhood growing up in a children’s home, when a police investigation into his boyhood friend’s suicide opens old wounds. As Paul struggles to shake off his past and build a relationship with Anthea, his fragile mental state and bitter memories lead to a confrontation with those responsible for his shattered childhood and the death of his friend.
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Title: Skint
Character: Jambo
Released: March 20, 2022
Type: TV
The grit, humour and courage of ordinary people in the bleakest of circumstances. Darkly comic, poignant and sometimes devastating monologues about life in poverty.
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Title: Showtrial
Character: Justin Mitchell
Released: October 31, 2021
Type: TV
An anthology series of hotly contested criminal trials that divides the nation and take place in the full glare of the media spotlight.
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Tales of the Creeping Death
Title: Tales of the Creeping Death
Character: Goose
Released: July 30, 2021
Type: Movie
Five tales full of horror, comedy and most importantly, Creeping Death. You better pray for your soul.
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Title: Time
Character: Kenny Meadows
Released: June 6, 2021
Type: TV
Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.
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Creation Stories
Title: Creation Stories
Character: Joe Foster
Released: April 15, 2021
Type: Movie
The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtrack to the ‘90s, a decade of cultural renaissance known as Cool Britannia. From humble beginnings to Downing Street soirées, from dodging bailiffs to releasing multi-platinum albums, Creation had it all. Breakdowns, bankruptcy, fights and friendships… and not forgetting the music. Featuring some of the greatest records you have ever heard, we follow Alan through a drug-fuelled haze of music and mayhem, as his rock’n’roll dream brings the world Oasis, Primal Scream, and other generation-defining bands.
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A Guide to Second Date Sex
Title: A Guide to Second Date Sex
Character: Dan
Released: November 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Laura and Ryan are perfect for each other: they both love Meryl Streep, have been totally destroyed by previous relationships, and have no idea what they are supposed to do tonight. They also both know that they'll have to pretend to be completely different to how they've ever been previously, in the hope of getting it right this time. How bad can a second date really go and what is there to lose? Ryan and Laura are about to find out.
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Break Clause
Title: Break Clause
Released: July 18, 2019
Type: Movie
A trio of con-artists rip off some gangsters and lie low in a rented house. Christy tries to see the sting through whilst an unwanted guest, Phil, soon has Nick under his spell and Chloe firmly in his sights.
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Killers Anonymous
Title: Killers Anonymous
Character: Leandro
Released: June 27, 2019
Type: Movie
A failed attempt to murder a Senator is connected to a group meeting secretly to discuss their darkest urges—to take lives.
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Title: Chernobyl
Character: Mikhail
Released: May 6, 2019
Type: TV
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
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The Keeper
Title: The Keeper
Character: Bill Twist
Released: December 5, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
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Title: On the Edge
Character: Olly
Released: August 14, 2018
Type: TV
A drama anthology that serves up a raw slice of real life in Modern Britain.
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Walk Like a Panther
Title: Walk Like a Panther
Character: Ricky Rickson
Released: March 9, 2018
Type: Movie
A group of 1980s wrestlers are forced to don the lycra once last time when their beloved local pub is threatened with closure.
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Title: Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Character: Noah
Released: September 17, 2017
Type: TV
A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.
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Papillon
Title: Papillon
Character: Julot
Released: September 7, 2017
Type: Movie
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
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Double Date
Title: Double Date
Character: Alex
Released: June 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Meet innocent Jim, terrified of girls, and on a reluctant quest to prove his manhood the night before he turns 30. He and his cocky friend Alex think they’ve hit the jackpot when they meet the beautiful siblings Kitty and Lulu, who seem up for anything on a wild party-fuelled night. But little do they know that the femmes fatales want to make Jim lose much more than just his virginity… Getting laid has never been so bloody difficult.
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Title: The Aliens
Character: Lewis
Released: March 8, 2016
Type: TV
Nearly 40 years ago aliens crash-landed in the UK. They look like us, but are forced to live in a ghetto. Border control officer Lewis falls in love with one.
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Title: This Is England '90
Character: Harvey
Released: September 13, 2015
Type: TV
Shaun, Harvey, Gadget, Trev and Kelly hit up the nightlife of raves and ecstasy. Woody and Lol are happy, living together with their kids and Combo is still in prison. But things slowly change. This is the year 1990 and This is England.
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Title: Our World War
Character: Pvt. Andy Andrews
Released: August 7, 2014
Type: TV
Our World War is a gripping factual drama series offering viewers first-hand experience of the extraordinary bravery of young soldiers fighting 100 years ago. Drawing on real stories of World War One soldiers it uses the visual techniques and imagery familiar from modern warfare – POV helmet camera footage, surveillance images and night vision – to immerse the BBC Three audience in life on the Western Front. Each episode is closely based on first-hand testimony, interviews and memoirs that reveal often hidden and sometimes disturbing aspects of the combat experience.
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Title: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
Character: Knave of Hearts
Released: October 10, 2013
Type: TV
In Victorian England, the young and beautiful Alice tells a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. Thinking Alice insane, her doctors aim to make her forget everything. While Alice is ready to put it all behind her, she knows this world is real. In the nick of time, the Knave of Hearts and the White Rabbit save her from a doomed fate. Together, the trio tumble down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, where nothing is impossible.
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Svengali
Title: Svengali
Character: Tommy
Released: June 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London…
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Spike Island
Title: Spike Island
Character: Carl
Released: October 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.
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Twenty8K
Title: Twenty8K
Character: Tony
Released: September 10, 2012
Type: Movie
A teenage boy is gunned down outside a nightclub and a young girl dies in a hit and run in two seemingly unrelated deaths. Deeva Jani, returns home to clear her brother Vipon of the shooting and soon discovers a much deeper conspiracy.
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Title: This Is England '88
Character: Harvey
Released: December 13, 2011
Type: TV
Set during Christmas 1988, Lol is haunted by the devastating events that took place two and a half years before. She and Woody both find themselves struggling to cope with their lives without each other after he leaves the gang. Lol is carrying the burden of her guilt, whilst Woody is trying to build a domestic life with a new girlfriend and a potential promotion at work. Shaun has started drama college and, although still in a relationship with Smell, he has grown close to a girl performing in his Christmas play.
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Title: Once Upon a Time
Character: Will Scarlet
Released: October 23, 2011
Type: TV
There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.
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Title: This Is England '86
Character: Harvey
Released: September 7, 2010
Type: TV
It's 1986 - the year Maradona ends England's World Cup dreams in Mexico; the year Top Gun is the highest grossing film; the year over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed and the year Shaun is leaving school.
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Bonded by Blood
Title: Bonded by Blood
Character: Donny Svenson
Released: September 2, 2010
Type: Movie
In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.
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Shank
Title: Shank
Character: Craze
Released: August 21, 2010
Type: Movie
Mo Ali’s futuristic knife-crime drama brings the dystopian environment of CHILDREN OF MEN and DISTRICT 13 to London’s East 17. SHANK delivers a ruthless vision of forthcoming urban life, where guns have been superseded by knives and are fiercely wielded by aimless youths. Amidst the chaos is the Paper Chazers gang, a rare morally conscious group who trade scavenged food for money. After Chazers gang member, Junior (Kedar Williams-Stirling), witnesses his brother, murder he must decide whether to get revenge of stick to the gangs moral code... In this superbly paced and artistic film, present-day social issues, and murky city streets, provide a perfect canvas for imagination and action.
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Title: Dive
Released: July 8, 2010
Type: TV
Dive is a two-part British television drama starring Aisling Loftus, Jack O'Connell and Gina McKee. Broadcast on BBC Two in July 2010, the show dealt with the problems of teenage relationships and pregnancy against the backdrop of a young diver's preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Dogging: A Love Story
Title: Dogging: A Love Story
Character: Jim
Released: December 26, 2009
Type: Movie
An aspiring Gordie journalist drops his inhibitions to research the UK's North East outdoor sex scene. He meets a certain girl in a car park, and the totally unexpected happens.
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Title: Paradox
Released: November 24, 2009
Type: TV
Mysterious images that show incidents 18 hours before they happen are transmitted from space. As a space scientist attempts to explain their source, detectives race against time to change the future.
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Jade
Title: Jade
Character: Stephen
Released: October 26, 2009
Type: Movie
Teenager Jade is pregnant. Her relationship with the father is complicated.
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Bale
Title: Bale
Character: Kyle
Released: June 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Bullying of younger teens by older teens goes wrong.
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The Unloved
Title: The Unloved
Character: Michael
Released: May 17, 2009
Type: Movie
Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow her struggle to cope with the system; her only saving being her self-belief and certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit.
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Title: Being Human
Released: January 25, 2009
Type: TV
Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.
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Title: Being Human
Character: Tom
Released: January 25, 2009
Type: TV
Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.
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Harvest
Title: Harvest
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Alex Winckler Drama Short Film
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Summer
Title: Summer
Character: Daniel
Released: December 5, 2008
Type: Movie
Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and Daz with him. Shaun has twelve years to reflect on an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty. But Daz's imminent death forces Shaun to confront his past.
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Better Things
Title: Better Things
Character: Mike
Released: May 17, 2008
Type: Movie
Gail's agoraphobia keeps her inside where she escapes into romance novels. She shares a house with her Nan, recently back from the hospital. Gradually, they both try to reach out to each other to break their isolation. Rob plunges further into his addiction as a way of numbing his heartbreak over the death of his girlfriend. In his stupor, he dreams of embracing her again. Mr & Mrs Gladwin are going through a shift in their 60 year relationship. Years of resentment and unspoken truths have built a barrier between them that Mrs Gladwin, in her abiding love, tries to erode in little gestures.
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Lady Margaret
Title: Lady Margaret
Character: Danny
Released: December 8, 2007
Type: Movie
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This Is England
Title: This Is England
Character: Harvey
Released: April 27, 2007
Type: Movie
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
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Soft
Title: Soft
Character: ASBO
Released: April 20, 2007
Type: Movie
A father rediscovers his fear of confrontation at the worst possible time.
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Title: Toxic Town
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The story of the tragic toxic waste case in the East Midlands and three mothers’ “David and Goliath fight for justice” in the late 1980s.
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Edicius
Title: Edicius
Character: Jason
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Your intuition doesn't trust you.