Matthew Sunderland
Actor
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
The Lost City of Z
March 15, 2017
Pearl
September 16, 2022
6 Days
July 9, 2017
The Nightingale
September 23, 2018
The Little Death
June 13, 2014
The Stranger
October 6, 2022
Backtrack
July 25, 2015
Bloody Hell
October 8, 2020
Cellar Door
October 31, 2024
The Devil's Rock
July 8, 2011
Out of the Blue
October 12, 2006
A Mistake
September 14, 2023
Acting34
- 2024Cellar Door as Male Party Guest
- 2024Morning Hate as Sunken Man
- 2023A Mistake as Owen
- 2023Freedom Fighter
- 2022Tales from the Apocalypse as Mark
- 2022The Stranger as Controller / Cleaner
- 2022Pearl as Father
- 2022Saviour as Reed
- 2020Bloody Hell as Father
- 2019A Moray as Marlon