Acting
Matthew Sunderland
EN cinema · 34 credits
Also known as Matt Sunderland
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
Known for
Filmography
Seeds
as John
Morning Hate
as Sunken Man
Cellar Door
as Male Party Guest
A Mistake
as Owen
Pearl
as Father
The Stranger
as Controller / Cleaner
Bloody Hell
as Father
A Moray
2019
A Moray
as Marlon
Savage
as Dad
The Nightingale
as Davey
6 Days
as Tom Lovett
Cradle
as Mark
Backtrack
as Steve, Barry's Brother
The Little Death
as Wiry Man
The Weight of Elephants
as Uncle Rory
Existence
as Rider
The Devil's Rock
as Col Klaus Meyer
Poppy
as Paddy
Under the Mountain
as Wilberforce Drone 1
Kiss Me Deadly
as Vigo
A Song of Good
as Denis
The Last Magic Show
as Lemuel
Out of the Blue
as David Gray
Woodenhead
as Gustav the Strongman, as Tramp's vocals
Christmas
as Brett
Desperate Remedies
as Chorus #15