Matthew Sunderland
Acting
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Sunderland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Movies (32)
Cellar Door2024Male Party Guest
Morning Hate2024Sunken Man
A Mistake2023Owen
Freedom Fighter2023
Tales from the Apocalypse2022Mark
The Stranger2022Controller / Cleaner
Pearl2022Father- Saviour2022Reed
Bloody Hell2020Father- A Moray2019Marlon
Savage2019Dad
The Nightingale2018Davey
6 Days2017Tom Lovett
The Lost City of Z2017Dan
Cradle2016Mark
Backtrack2015Steve, Barry's Brother
The Little Death2014Wiry Man
The Weight of Elephants2013Uncle Rory
Existence2012Rider
The Devil's Rock2011Col Klaus Meyer
Under the Mountain2009Wilberforce Drone 1- Vostok Station2009
Poppy2009Paddy
Kiss Me Deadly2008Vigo
The Last Magic Show2007Lemuel
Out of the Blue2006David Gray
Woodenhead2003Tramp's vocals
Christmas2003Brett- Teach You a Lesson2000Brother
Letters About the Weather1999Kade
