Stage name

"Praed" is an old Cornish word for "meadow". Praed picked it out of a telephone book and selected it as a stage name after discovering that the UK actors' trade union Equity already had a "Michael Prince" among its members.

Selected credits

Television

• Robin of Loxley in Robin of Sherwood (1984-85)
• Prince Michael of Moldavia in Dynasty (1985-86)
• Jake Lovell in the mini-series Riders (1993)
• Marty James in Crown Prosecutor (1995)
• Phileas Fogg in The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (1999)
• Michael Webb in Mile High (2003)
• Nelson Morris in Hindenburg: The Untold Story (Canadian title) (2007)
• In addition, guest appearances in more than a dozen television shows (1982-present)

Stage

• Frederick in the Joseph Papp production of the musical The Pirates of Penzance, Theatre Royal Drury Lane - London (1982-83)
• D'Artagnan in the revival of Rudolf Friml's The Three Musketeers, Broadway Theatre - New York City (1985)
• Billy Bigelow in a revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel, Tivoli Theatre - Dublin (1991)
• Alex in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Aspects of Love at the Prince of Wales Theatre - London (1991-92)
• Mick in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the Nottingham Playhouse - Nottingham (1993)
• Evan Davies in Daphne du Maurier's September Tide with Susannah York at the Comedy Theatre - London (1994)
• Otto in Noël Coward's Design for Living with Rachel Weisz at the Gielgud Theatre - London (1995)
• Tony/Stephen in Barry Manilow's Copacabana: The Musical, first tour of Britain (1996-97)
• Jack Locke in Dangerous to Know, tour of Britain (1998)
• Michael Wiley in Susan Stroman's musical Contact with Leigh Zimmerman at the Queen's Theatre - London (2002-03)
• Bernard Kersal in Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, tour of Britain (2003).
• Theodore Hoffman in Carl Djerassi's Three on a Couch with Leigh Zimmerman at The King's Head Theatre - London (2004)
• F Scott Fitzgerald in the musical Beautiful and Damned at the Lyric Theatre - London (2004)
• Paul Sheldon in Misery with Susan Penhaligon at The King's Head Theatre - London (2006)
• Tom Madison in Brian Stewart's Killing Castro, tour of Britain (2006)
• Neil in Derek Lister’s Blue on Blue, Haymarket Theatre - Basingstoke (2006)
• Milo Tindle in Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth with Simon MacCorkindale, tour of Britain (2008)
• Sir Robert Chiltern in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband with Kate O'Mara, Carol Royle, Robert Duncan, Fenella Fielding, and Tony Britton, tour of Britain (2008)
• Randall Kelly in James Farewell's The Murder Game with Josefina Gabrielle at The King's Head Theatre - London (2009)
• Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music with Connie Fisher and Margaret Preece - UK National Tour (2009-2011)
• Dexter Haven in High Society with Sophie Bould, Daniel Boys and Alex Young - UK National Tour and Ireland (January - August 2013)
• John Greenwood in The White Carnation with Benjamin Whitrow, Robert Benfield and Tony Dale - Jermyn Street Theatre, London (February 2014)
• Charles Stanton in J.B. Priestley's Dangerous Corner with Colin Buchanan, Kim Thomson, Matt Milne, Lauren Drummond, Rosie Armstrong and Finty Williams, tour of Britain (September - November 2014)
• Lawrence in David Yazbek's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Noel Sullivan, Carley Stenson, Mark Benton, and Gary Wilmot, UK National Tour (May 2015-March 2016)
• George Herbert in The War Of The Worlds musical with Madalena Alberto, Heidi Range, David Essex, Jimmy Nail and Daniel Bedingfield at the Dominion Theatre (2016).

Film

• Royd Erris in an adaptation of George R. R. Martin's Nightflyers (1987)
• Max Schrek in the vampire flick Son of Darkness: To Die For 2 (1991)
• Andrew in Writer's Block with Morgan Fairchild (1991)
• Gary in Staggered with Martin Clunes (1994)
• The Hitman in Darkness Falls with Ray Winstone (1999)
• The Queen in Nine Dead Gay Guys (2002)
• Himself in the documentary The King's Head: A Maverick in London (2006)

Audio

• Narrated Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch for Erotic Classics (1989, reissued 1994)
• Professor Slyde in the Big Finish audio drama Doctor Who: The Dark Flame (2003)
• Narrated Caroline Lawrence's The Roman Mysteries audio books (2004-05)
• Narrated Stephen Clarke's A Year In The Merde (2005)
• Narrated Paul Stewart's Beyond the Deepwoods (2005)
• Narrator of BBC TV's The Wild West documentary mini-series (2007)
• Soris in the B7 Media/SciFi Channel UK podcast of the Blake's 7 adventure Rebel (2007)
• Co-narrator on the Oneword radio series Mills & Boon at the Weekend (2006-2008)
• Ladiver in the Big Finish audio drama adaptation of the 1960s Doctor Who stage play, The Curse of the Daleks (2008)
• Regular narrator of BBC TV's Timewatch documentary series (2003-09)

Trivia

Between the ages of 2 and 8 Praed grew up in Iran.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]