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Mat Fraser is an English actor. He has thalidomide-induced Phocomelia. ==Performing career== As an actor Fraser has performed on the hit show ''American Horror Story: Freak Show'', and with the "Graeae Theatre Company", Europe's leading disabled theatre company. He is the creator and main performer in a new play called ''Thalidomide!! A Musical''. He also co-hosts the BBC's ''Ouch! Podcast''.〔(Ouch! It's a disability thing ) BBC〕 Fraser has appeared on television both as a presenter and as an actor, in a number of productions including ''Metrosexuality'' and ''Every Time You Look at Me''. He is also a martial artist having studied hapkido, taekwondo, and karate. Fraser coined the use of term "spacking up" to describe when an able-bodied actor plays the part of a disabled person rather than the part going to a disabled actor, as a play on "blacking up", used to describe the controversial practice where non-black actors take on the characters of black people.〔(I’m a bit surprised to be referred to as “you people”… Isn’t that kind of condescending? ) EoinButler.com (Irish Times), 6 March 2010〕 His film ''Kung Fu Flid'' was released in 2009, starring Faye Tozer (formerly of pop group Steps), Frank Harper and Terry Stone.〔(Kung Fu Flid ) IMDb〕 Fraser made his ''Fair City'' debut in June 2011,〔(Man on a mission ) Irish Times, 7 June 2011 〕 playing Esther's son David and impregnating Susan before fleeing to Kosovo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David Osbourne played by Mat Fraser )〕 Fraser played the drums in a performance of Ian Dury's "Spasticus Autisticus" at the 2012 Paralympics opening ceremony,〔(Flippers and strippers – Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz ) Time Out London, 31 August 2012〕〔(From Paraphilia to Paralympics with Mat Fraser ) This is Cabaret, 8 September 2012〕 and with Coldplay during the closing ceremony.〔(Disabled drummer gets biggest gig of his life as he joins Coldplay at Games finale ) London Evening Standard, 10 September 2012〕〔(As it happened: Paralympic closing ceremony ) BBC Sport, 9 September 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mat Fraser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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