Matthew Day (born 28 September 1971) is an Australian actor and filmmaker.
Early life
Day was born in
Melbourne
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Victoria. When he was 11 years old, he went to live in the
United States
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with his father, a newspaper correspondent, where he became interested in acting.
[ On his return to Australia, he attended Princes Hill Secondary College, in Carlton North and joined St Martins Youth Arts Centre in ]South Yarra
South Yarra is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Stonnington local government areas. South Yarra recorded a populati ...
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Career
Day was spotted by an agent[ at the age of 14 and was soon cast in his first role in the ABC television series '' c/o The Bartons''. At 17, he left his home in Carlton and relocated to ]Sydney
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for the role in the television series '' A Country Practice'' that was to be his first big break.[Rand, Hannah (3 May 2009) "Passions in practice", ''Sunday Magazine'', p. 27]
He has since gone on to establish a reputation as one of Australia's leading film, television and theatre actors, appearing in numerous Australian television series and telemovies including ''Rake
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'', '' Tangle'', '' Hell Has Harbour Views'', ''My Brother Jack'' and '' Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo''. Feature credits include ''Touch'', '' My Year Without Sex'', ''Love and Other Catastrophes
''Love and Other Catastrophes'' is a quirky 1996 Australian romantic comedy film featuring Frances O'Connor, Radha Mitchell, Alice Garner, Matthew Dyktynski, Matt Day and Kym Gyngell. The film was the first full-length release by director ...
'', ''Muriel's Wedding
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'', Woody Allen's ''Scoop
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'' and '' Kiss or Kill'', for which he received nominations for a Film Critic Circle Award and an AFI Award for Best Actor.
His international television credits include '' Shackleton'' with Kenneth Branagh
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, ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'', ''The Commander'', '' Spooks'', '' Hotel Babylon'', '' Secret Diary of a Call Girl'' and Bruce Beresford's ''And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself''.
Short films as writer/director include ''Beat'' (2011 St Kilda Film Festival) ''My Everything'' (2003 Toronto Short Film Festival) and ''Wish'' (Turner Classic Shorts 2008 Winner - Special Mention, London Film Festival
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In 2016, the British Film Institute, BFI estim ...
, Encounters Short Film Festival, Foyle Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival
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, Stockholm Film Festival).
In 2017 he won the 25th Tropfest short film festival for his comic short film ''The Mother Situation,'' which he both directed and acted in''.''
In 2022 Day was announced as part of the cast for channel 9 drama ''Human Error.'' In 2023 Day was named for ABC musical drama ''In Our Blood.'' Day would return for the second season of ''Strife.''
Personal life
Day's parents divorced when he was young. His mother, an English teacher, took him around Europe for six months when he was 7 and his brother Michael was 9.[Rand, Hannah (3 May 2009) "Passions in practice", ''Sunday Magazine'', p. 28] He said later that "the whole experience went definitely some way to influencing my wanderlust".[
Day moved with his wife, journalist Kirsty Thomson, to London in 2000, not returning to Australia until 2007. The couple now live in Sydney and have two sons, Jackson and Rufus.
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Filmography
Film
Television
Theatre
Writer/director
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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Matt Day Yahoo Group Tons of Photos and Breaking News
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1971 births
Australian male film actors
Australian male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Melbourne