Matthew Sunderland
Actor
Biography
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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.
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Filmography
Pearl
as Father 2022
6 Days
as Tom Lovett 2017
The Nightingale
as Davey 2018
The Little Death
as Wiry Man 2014
The Stranger
as Controller / Cleaner 2022
Backtrack
as Steve, Barry's Brother 2015
Bloody Hell
as Father 2020
Cellar Door
as Male Party Guest 2024
The Devil's Rock
as Col Klaus Meyer 2011
Out of the Blue
as David Gray 2006
A Mistake
as Owen 2024
Savage
as Dad 2019
Kiss Me Deadly
as Vigo 2008
The Weight of Elephants
as Uncle Rory 2013
Desperate Remedies
as Chorus #15 1993
Tales from the Apocalypse
as Mark 2022