Matthew Sunderland
34 movies · 5 TV shows
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- Matt Sunderland
Biography
Matthew "Matt" Sunderland (born c.1972) is a New Zealand actor. He performed the lead role of David Gray in the feature film Out of the Blue, based on the events of the Aramoana Massacre. At the New Zealand Screen Awards in 2008 he won Best Actor Award for this role.
Sunderland was also nominated for a Best Actor Award in the 2006 NZ Screen Awards for Natures Way, which screened In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006.
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His other feature film roles include A Song of Good, Christmas, Stringer and Woodenhead as well as more than twenty short films.
Sunderland graduated from The New Zealand Drama School Toi Whakaari in 1997 and has concentrated on New Zealand film work with numerous theatre excursions also. He has appeared at the Silo Theatre (Fool for Love, Blasted), and the Herald Theatre (Trainspotting) in Auckland, and the Court Theatre in Christchurch (Peninsula) .
Sunderland appeared in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Streets first official 90 minute episode as White Dragon in a storyline concluding the 3 year Kieran Mitchell story arc.
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Matthew Sunderland: movies and TV shows
Acting (39)
- Upcoming Seeds
as John
- 2024 Cellar Door
as Male Party Guest
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024 Morning Hate
as Sunken Man
- 2023 A Mistake
as Owen
- 2023
- 2022 Tales from the Apocalypse
as Mark
- 2022 The Stranger
as Controller / Cleaner
- 2022 Pearl
as Father
- 2022 Saviour
as Reed
- 2020 Bloody Hell
as Father
- 2019 A Moray
as Marlon
- 2019 Savage
as Dad
- 2018 The Nightingale
as Davey
- 2017 6 Days
as Tom Lovett
- 2017 The Lost City of Z
as Dan
- 2016 Cradle
as Mark
- 2016
- 2015 Backtrack
as Steve, Barry's Brother
- 2014 The Little Death
as Wiry Man
- 2013 The Weight of Elephants
as Uncle Rory
- 2012 Existence
as Rider
- 2011 The Devil's Rock
as Col Klaus Meyer
- 2009 Under the Mountain
as Wilberforce Drone 1
- 2009
- 2009 Poppy
as Paddy
- 2008 Kiss Me Deadly
as Vigo
- 2008 A Song of Good
as Denis
- 2007 The Last Magic Show
as Lemuel
- 2006 Out of the Blue
as David Gray
- 2003 Woodenhead
as Tramp's vocals / Gustav the Strongman
- 2003 Christmas
as Brett
- 2000 Teach You a Lesson
as Brother
- 1999 Letters About the Weather
as Kade
- 1999 POP
as MAN
- 1995
- 1993 Desperate Remedies
as Chorus #15
- 1993