Milton Lopes won the Best Actor Award with his first participation in a feature film, the award wining The Dauphin. He was born in Cape Verde Islands and grew up in Portugal where he worked as an actor in various TV Series, Theatre Shows and Feature Films. He recently played John "The Savage" in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World for BBC Radio 4. The four languages that he speaks allows him to work in the UK, Portugal, France, Brazil, Mexico and Angola. He made is debut appearance in a British film in Bonobo, the first feature film of the award winning director Matthew Hammett Knott. He works as well as circus aerialist, having performed in the Paralympic Opening Ceremonies. worked with Extraordinary Bodies (UK), Strange Fruit (Australia), Circo Crescer e Viver (Brazil), Fura Dels Baus ( Spain) and Graeae Theatre Company (UK). His singing voice got him the lead role Macheath in Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, a co-production by Graeae, New Wolsey Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep. His physicality allowed him to be part of the cast of the immersive physical theatre show Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare, directed by Pia Furtado and produced by The Theory of Everything in Peckham Multistorey Carpark in London. He is part of the London cast of Exhibit B by Brett Bailey.