Matthew Sunderland

Biography

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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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Known For

Out of the Blue

Kiss Me Deadly

The Devil's Rock

Tales from the Apocalypse

Freedom Fighter

The Weight of Elephants

Pearl

Filmography

2024 Territory

as Elton

2024 Plum

as Charles Bukowski

2024 Morning Hate

as Sunken Man

2024 A Mistake

as Owen

2023 Freedom Fighter

2022 Tales from the Apocalypse

as Mark

2022 The Stranger

as Controller / Cleaner

2022 Pearl

as Father

2022 Saviour

as Reed

2020 Bloody Hell

as Father

2019 A Moray

as Marlon

2019 Savage

as Dad

2018 The Nightingale

as Davey

2017 6 Days

as Tom Lovett

2017 The Lost City of Z

as Dan

2016 Cradle

as Mark

2016 Wanted

as Bryce

2015 Backtrack

as Steve, Barry's Brother

2014 The Little Death

as Wiry Man

2013 The Weight of Elephants

as Uncle Rory