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Matthew 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…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Sunderland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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2024
Cellar Door
Movie Male Party Guest
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2024
Territory
TV show Elton
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2024
Plum
TV show Charles Bukowski
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2024
Morning Hate
Movie Sunken Man
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2023
A Mistake
Movie Owen
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2023
Freedom Fighter
Movie
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2022
Tales from the Apocalypse
Movie Mark
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2022
The Stranger
Movie Controller / Cleaner
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2022
Pearl
Movie Father
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2022
Saviour
Movie Reed
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2020
Bloody Hell
Movie Father
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2019
A Moray
Movie Marlon
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2019
Savage
Movie Dad
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2018
The Nightingale
Movie Davey
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2017
6 Days
Movie Tom Lovett
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2017
The Lost City of Z
Movie Dan
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2016
Cradle
Movie Mark
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2016
Wanted
TV show Bryce
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2015
Backtrack
Movie Steve, Barry's Brother
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2014
The Little Death
Movie Wiry Man
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2013
The Weight of Elephants
Movie Uncle Rory
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2012
Existence
Movie Rider
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2011
The Devil's Rock
Movie Col Klaus Meyer
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2009
Under the Mountain
Movie Wilberforce Drone 1
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2009
Vostok Station
Movie
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2009
Poppy
Movie Paddy
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2008
Kiss Me Deadly
Movie Vigo
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2008
A Song of Good
Movie Denis
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2007
The Last Magic Show
Movie Lemuel
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2006
Out of the Blue
Movie David Gray
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2003
Woodenhead
Movie Tramp's vocals
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2003
Christmas
Movie Brett
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2000
Teach You a Lesson
Movie Brother
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1999
Letters About the Weather
Movie Kade
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1999
POP
Movie MAN
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1995
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
TV show Shepherd
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1993
Desperate Remedies
Movie Chorus #15
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1993
Power Rangers
TV show Monster General #2 (voice)
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Seeds
Movie John
