Born in Montreal. He began a career in politics but switched to acting and studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse Theater School in New York. After the two year intensive training he was hired by the National Theater of the Performing Arts and toured the United States performing in classical theater. Two years of working with regional theaters landed him in Seattle playing Hamlet at the Washington Shakespeare Festival where he met his future wife Michelle Harrison . He has continued working extensively in theatre but has primarily been acting on screen. Features include "The Thir13en Ghosts (2001)", "House Next Door (2002)", "Romeo Must Die (2000)", "Sister Blue (2003)". TV movies include "Miracle of the Cards, The (2001) (TV)", "Linda McCartney Story, The (2000) (TV)" (as Mick Jagger), "Hayley Wagner, Star (1999) (TV)", Miracle on the 17th Green (1999) (TV)_ (qv), and "Crime of Passion (2003) (TV)". Television guest spots are on all the Canadian and American networks.
As a writer he has created and written an episodic television show, Ethan's Abbey (a comedy series about a young “Alex P. Keaton” wannabe-tycoon living in a church and managing its community center for profit). Ethan's Abbey was selected winner of the Vancouver Film Festival's Pitch Off West 2001. A pilot and first episode teleplays, a show bible, and thirteen episode treatments have been completed and the show is now in network development. He has also created Mythic Island, a children's episodic (in which six best friends and their favorite teacher help solve the adventures of real mythological gods and heroes who come to life in their island community).
And Imitating Life is a sit-com/serial theater production about the socialite manager of an art gallery and his former TV star-ex-girlfriend who lives in the gallery back office is set to begin a twelve episode production in January, 2004. His feature Shark Dance, a noirish Caribbean comedy about a maverick millionaire living on a yacht off the island-nation he has taken financially hostage and the young trouble-shooter sent to recover the bank's lost money, is in its final draft and currently being packaged. Matthew and his wife Michelle live in Vancouver and work out of both Vancouver and Los Angeles.
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