Matthew Day (born 28 September 1971) is an Australian actor and filmmaker.

Early life

Day was born in

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, Victoria. When he was 11 years old, he went to live in the

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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 North Carlton, Melbourne and joined

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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 for the role in the television series ''

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'' 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'', ''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'', '' Muriel's Wedding'', Woody Allen's ''

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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, ''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, Encounters Short Film Festival, Foyle Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, 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''.''

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.

Filmography

Feature films

*'' Muriel's Wedding'' (1994) - Brice Nobes *'' Love and Other Catastrophes'' (1996) - Michael Douglas *''

Dating the Enemy ''Dating The Enemy'' is a 1996 Australian comedy about a recently broken up couple who mystically swap bodies and have to live as each other. Plot One Valentine's evening a group of single, dateless friends get together to play Trivial Pursuit ...

'' (1996) - Rob *'' Kiss or Kill'' (1997) - Al Fletcher *''The Two-Wheeled Time Machine'' (1997, Short) - Henry Howard *'' Doing Time for Patsy Cline'' (1997) - Ralph *''

The Sugar Factory ''The Sugar Factory'' is a 1999 Australian film directed by Robert Carter and Matt Day and Rhondda Findleton.

'' (1998) - Harris *'' Muggers'' (2000) - Brad Forrest *''

'' (2006) - Jerry Burke *'' My Year Without Sex'' (2009) - Ross *''

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'' (2014) - John *''Touch'' (2015) *''Dance Academy: The Movie'' (2017) - Barrister Jeff Menzies *'' Sweet Country'' (2017) - Judge Taylor *''Reaching Distance'' (2018) - Martin

Television

*'' c/o The Bartons'' (1988) - Paul Barton *''House Rules'' (1988) *''

'' (1989–1993) - Julian 'Luke' Ross *'' The Bob Morrison Show'' (1994) - Jake Duffy *'' Snowy River: The McGregor Saga'' (1995) - Pete Reilly *'' The Beast'' (1996) - Cosgrove *'' Water Rats'' (1996) - Matthews *''

Farscape ''Farscape'' is an Australian-American science fiction television series, produced originally for the Nine Network. It premiered in the US on Sci-Fi Channel's SciFi Friday, 19 March 1999, at 8:00 pm EST as their anchor series. The series was ...

'' (2000) - Councilor Tyno *'' The Love of Lionel's Life'' (2000, TV Movie) - Lionel *''

My Brother Jack ''My Brother Jack'' is a classic 1964 Australian novel by writer George Johnston. It is part of a trilogy centering on the character of David Meredith. The other books in the trilogy are '' Clean Straw for Nothing'' and '' A Cartload of Clay'' ...

'' (2001, TV Movie) - David Meredith *'' The Green-Eyed Monster'' (2001, TV Movie) - Liam McGuire *''

The Hound of the Baskervilles ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in '' The Strand Magazine'' from August 1901 to April 1902, it is se ...

'' (2002, TV Movie) - Sir Henry Baskerville *'' Shackleton'' (2002) - Frank Hurley *''

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself ''And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself'' is a 2003 American made-for-television western film for HBO in partnership with City Entertainment and starring Antonio Banderas as Pancho Villa, directed by Bruce Beresford, written by Larry Gelbart and p ...

'' (2003, TV Movie) - John Reed *''

Wild Down Under ''Wild Down Under'' is a BBC nature documentary series exploring the natural history of the Australasian continent, first transmitted in the UK on BBC Two in September 2003. It was broadcast in Australia under the title ''Wild Australasia'' in ...

'' (2003) - Narrator *''

Hell Has Harbour Views ''Hell Has Harbour Views'' is a 2001 novel written by Richard Beasley. A 2005 ABC telemovie written and directed by Peter Duncan, was based on the novel. Synopsis The story is set in a corrupt Sydney law firm and follows the protagonist, H ...

'' (2005, TV Movie) - Hugh Walker *'' Hotel Babylon'' (2006) - Richard *'' Spooks'' (2006) - Neil Sternin *'' The Commander'' (2007, TV Movie) - Eric Thornton *''The Informant'' (2008, TV Movie) - Cameron Clifford *'' Tangle'' (2009–2010) - Gabriel Lucas *'' Underbelly: The Golden Mile'' (2010) - Sid Hillier *'' Rake'' (2010–2018) - David Potter *'' Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo'' (2011) - Daniel Ritchie *''

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'' is an Australian drama television series. It was first broadcast on ABC on 24 February 2012. It is based on author Kerry Greenwood's historical mystery novels, and it was created by Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger ...

'' (2012) in "King Memses' Curse" (S1:E13) *'' The Outlaw Michael Howe'' (2013, TV Movie) - Magistrate Robert Knopwood *'' Love Child'' (2017) - Father Ross *''

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'' (2017) - Brian *'' Les Norton'' (2019) - Gecko *''

Get Krack!n ''Get Krack!n'' is an Australian comedy series which was created by and stars comedians Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan. The series is a satire of breakfast television and features McCartney and McLennan playing versions of themselves hosting ' ...

'' (2019) - Brendan O'Hara *'' The Unusual Suspects'' (2021) - Garth

Stage

*''Black Rabbit'', Playbox Theatre Company *''The Game of Love and Chance'', New England Theatre Company *''Man of the Moment'', Ensemble Productions Theatre, Sydney *''Six Degrees of Separation'', Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney, 1998. *''Fred'', Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney, 1999. *''Scarlett O'Hara at the Crimson Parrot,'' Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne, 2008. *''The Wonderful World of Dissocia,''

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, Sydney, 2009. *''North By Northwest'',

Melbourne Theatre Company The Melbourne Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the University of Melbourne, it is the oldest professional theatre compa ...

, Melbourne, 2015.

References

External links

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