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Matthew Sunderland
Actor
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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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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
Matthew Sunderland Filmography
| 2024 | Cellar Door · as Male Party Guest |
| 2024 | Territory (2024) (TV Series) · as Elton |
| 2024 | Plum (TV Series) · as Charles Bukowski |
| 2024 | |
| 2022 | Episodes from Apocalypse · as Mark |
| 2022 | The Stranger · as Controller / Cleaner |
| 2022 | Pearl: An X-traordinary Origin Story · as Father |
| 2021 | The Finding · as Sanders |
| 2020 | Bloody Hell · as Father |
| 2020 | The Luminaries (TV Series) · as Joseph Pritchard |
| 2019 | Savage · as Dad |
| 2018 | The Nightingale · as Davey |
| 2017 | 6 Days · as Tom Lovett |
| 2016 | The Lost City of Z · as Dan |
| 2016 | Wanted (2016) (TV Series) · as Bryce |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | The Little Death · as Wiry Man |
| 2013 | The Weight of Elephants · as Uncle Rory |
| 2013 | Harry (2013) (TV Series) · as Spud |
| 2013 | Top of the Lake (TV Series) · as Voice Of Choppy 1 |
| 2012 | Existence · as Rider |
| 2011 | The Devil's Rock · as Col Klaus Meyer |
| 2010 | |
| 2010 | This Is Not My Life (TV Series) · as The Cleaner |
| 2010 | Tracker · as Posse Soldier Crowther |
| 2009 | Under the Mountain · as Wilberforce Drone 1 |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | The Strength of Water · as Hunter |
| 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 Gustav The Strongman |
| 2003 | Christmas · as Brett |
| 2002 | Mataku (TV Series) · as The Viper |
| 2000 | Cleopatra 2525 (TV Series) · as Tox |
| 1999 | Letters About the Weather · as Kade |
| 1995 | Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (TV Series) · as Shepherd |
| 1993 | Power Rangers (TV Series) · as Monster General #2 (voice) |
| 1992 | Desperate Remedies · as Chorus #15 |
| 1992 | Absent Without Leave · as Paul |
| 1992 | Shortland Street (TV Series) · as White Dragon |