Biography

Matthew Kevin Anderson (born 1981, Westlake Village, Los Angeles, California, USA) is a Canadian-American actor, writer, and performance coach, active since the early 2000s. He graduated from the Vancouver Film School and early in his career hosted MTV Canada's video countdown show Select, where he interviewed major musicians. He moved to Los Angeles in 2010 on an O-1 Artist's Visa. He was married to actress Jewel Staite from 2003 to 2011. He has over 100 acting credits and also works as a performance coach and writer, with screenwriting credits including House of Deadly Lies (2023) and Deadly House Call (2022). He won the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2020 Hollywood North Film Awards for Ada (2019). His most notable screen roles include a part in Tomorrowland (2015) (George Clooney, Hugh Laurie), a role in Big Eyes (2014) (Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz), a role in Trick 'r Treat (2007) (Anna Paquin, Dylan Minnette), a role in Death Note (2017) (Lake Bell, Nat Wolff), a Fox Sports Reporter in The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019) (Michael Fassbender, Kim Dickens), Sean in Welcome to Marwen (2018) (Steve Carell, Gwendoline Christie), The Stranger in Alexandre Aja's Never Let Go (2024) (Hilary Swank, Luke Evans), Mark in Woman of the Hour (2023) (Anna Kendrick, Jack Quaid), Joan's Dad in Eternity (2025) (Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller), and David Kaczynski in Unabomber (2026) (Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay).