Matthew Sunderland

Biography

​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

Known For

David Gray

Out of the Blue

Vostok Station

MAN

POP

Brother

Teach You a Lesson

Vigo

Kiss Me Deadly

Col Klaus Meyer

The Devil's Rock

Mark

Tales from the Apocalypse

Freedom Fighter

Uncle Rory

The Weight of Elephants

Father

Pearl

Gustav the Strongman

Woodenhead

Tramp's vocals

Woodenhead

Reed

Saviour

Wiry Man

The Little Death

Controller / Cleaner

The Stranger

Steve, Barry's Brother

Backtrack

Lemuel

The Last Magic Show

Brett

Christmas

Owen

A Mistake

Dan

The Lost City of Z

Tom Lovett

6 Days

Rider

Existence

Davey

The Nightingale

Mark

Cradle

Marlon

A Moray

Paddy

Poppy

Father

Bloody Hell

Sunken Man

Morning Hate

Dad

Savage

Male Party Guest

Cellar Door

Chorus #15

Desperate Remedies