Matthew Sunderland
Known for Acting
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.
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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
Pearl
2022 · as Father
The Lost City of Z
2017 · as Dan
The Nightingale
2018 · as Davey
The Little Death
2014 · as Wiry Man
Cellar Door
2024 · as Male Party Guest
6 Days
2017 · as Tom Lovett
The Stranger
2022 · as Controller / Cleaner
Bloody Hell
2020 · as Father
Backtrack
2015 · as Steve, Barry's Brother
A Mistake
2023 · as Owen
Out of the Blue
2006 · as David Gray
Under the Mountain
2009 · as Wilberforce Drone 1
The Devil's Rock
2011 · as Col Klaus Meyer
Teach You a Lesson
2000 · as Brother
Kiss Me Deadly
2008 · as Vigo
Savage
2019 · as Dad
Existence
2012 · as Rider
Desperate Remedies
1993 · as Chorus #15