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 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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Acting
Movie
The Lost City of Z
as Dan
2017
Movie
Pearl
as Father
2022
TV
Power Rangers
as Monster General #2 (voice)
1993
Movie
6 Days
as Tom Lovett
2017
Movie
The Nightingale
as Davey
2018
TV
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
as Shepherd
1995
Movie
The Little Death
as Wiry Man
2014
Movie
The Stranger
as Controller / Cleaner
2022
Movie
Backtrack
as Steve, Barry's Brother
2015
Movie
Bloody Hell
as Father
2020
Movie
Cellar Door
as Male Party Guest
2024
Movie
The Devil's Rock
as Col Klaus Meyer
2011
Movie
Out of the Blue
as David Gray
2006
TV
Wanted
as Bryce
2016
Movie
A Mistake
as Owen
2023
Movie
Under the Mountain
as Wilberforce Drone 1
2009
TV
Territory
as Elton
2024
Movie
Savage
as Dad
2019
Movie
Kiss Me Deadly
as Vigo
2008
Movie
Desperate Remedies
as Chorus #15
1993
Movie
The Weight of Elephants
as Uncle Rory
2013
Movie
Tales from the Apocalypse
as Mark
2022
Movie
Existence
as Rider
2012
Movie
Woodenhead
as Tramp's vocals
2003