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Matthew Sunderland

Matthew Sunderland

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Plum

as    Charles Bukowski

2024
A Mistake

as    Owen

2024
Morning Hate

as    Sunken Man

2022
The Stranger

as    Controller / Cleaner

2022
Pearl

as    Father

2022
Tales from the Apocalypse

as    Mark

2022
Saviour

as    Reed

2020
Bloody Hell

as    Father

2019
The Nightingale

as    Davey

2017
The Lost City of Z

as    Dan

2016
Cradle

as    Mark

2013
The Weight of Elephants

as    Uncle Rory

2012
Existence

as    Rider

2011
The Devil's Rock

as    Col Klaus Meyer

2008
Kiss Me Deadly

as    Vigo

2007
The Last Magic Show

as    Lemuel

2006
Out of the Blue

as    David Gray

2003
Christmas

as    Brett

2003
Woodenhead

as    Tramp's vocals