New Zealand actor
Matthew Sunderland |
|---|
![]() |
| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
|---|
| Education | Toi Whakaari |
|---|
| Occupation | Actor |
|---|
Matthew Sunderland (born c. 1972) is a New Zealand actor, writer, and director. He performed the lead role of David Gray in the feature film Out of the Blue, based on the events of the Aramoana Massacre.[1] At the New Zealand Screen Awards in 2008 he won Best Actor Award for this role.[2]
Education
Sunderland graduated from Toi Whakaari in 1997.
Career
Sunderland starred as Uncle Rory in Daniel Borgman's debut feature The Weight of Elephants.[3] He was nominated for a Best Actor Award in the 2006 NZ Screen Awards for Nature's Way, which screened In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006.
His other feature film roles include A Song of Good,[4] Christmas,[5] Stringer Woodenhead[6] Existence, and The Devil's Rock.
Sunderland made his directorial and screenwriting debut with the short film Tuffy, which deals with estrangement between a father and son, in small town New Zealand.
In 2013, Sunderland played in the stage adaptation of Kate Grenville’s Booker Prize-shortlisted The Secret River with the Sydney Theatre Company, which toured throughout Australia. He also appeared in Shortland Street as White Dragon, in a storyline concluding the three-year Kieran Mitchell story arc.[7]
In 2016, Sunderland played the role of a drunken man resisting alien abduction in the music video for "Bergschrund" by DJ Shadow and Nils Frahm.
Sunderland played the chemist, Joseph Pritchard in the 2020 miniseries The Luminaries.[8]
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
