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Matthew Sunderland
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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 numero…
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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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Matthew Sunderland's Filmography
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Cellar Door
as Male Party Guest
Morning Hate
as Sunken Man
A Mistake
as Owen
Freedom Fighter
Tales from the Apocalypse
as Mark
The Stranger
as Controller / Cleaner
Pearl
as Father
No Poster
Saviour
as Reed
Bloody Hell
as Father
No Poster
A Moray
as Marlon
Savage
as Dad
The Nightingale
as Davey
6 Days
as Tom Lovett
The Lost City of Z
as Dan
Cradle
as Mark
Backtrack
as Steve, Barry's Brother
The Little Death
as Wiry Man
The Weight of Elephants
as Uncle Rory
Existence
as Rider
The Devil's Rock
as Col Klaus Meyer
Under the Mountain
as Wilberforce Drone 1
No Poster
Vostok Station
Poppy
as Paddy
Kiss Me Deadly
as Vigo
A Song of Good
as Denis
The Last Magic Show
as Lemuel
Out of the Blue
as David Gray
Woodenhead
as Tramp's vocals
Woodenhead
as Gustav the Strongman
Christmas
as Brett
No Poster
Teach You a Lesson
as Brother
Letters About the Weather
as Kade
No Poster
POP
as MAN
Desperate Remedies
as Chorus #15
Seeds
as John