Matt Day

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Matt Day
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The Sapphires movie premiere at State Theatre, Sydney, Australia, 2012
Born
Matthew Day

(1971-09-28) 28 September 1971 (age 52)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation(s)Actor, filmmaker
SpouseKirsty Thomson
Children2

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

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Early life

Day was born in Melbourne, Victoria. [1] When he was 11 years old, he went to live in the United States with his father, a newspaper correspondent, where he became interested in acting. [2] On his return to Australia, he attended Princes Hill Secondary College, in Carlton North and joined St Martins Youth Arts Centre in South Yarra. [2]

Career

Day was spotted by an agent [2] 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 A Country Practice that was to be his first big break. [3]

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 , [4] Tangle , Hell Has Harbour Views , [5] 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 Scoop 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. [6]

In 2022 Day was announced as part of the cast for channel 9 drama Human Error. [7] In 2023 Day was named for ABC musical drama In Our Blood. [8] Day would return for the second season of Strife. [9]

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. [2] He said later that "the whole experience went definitely some way to influencing my wanderlust". [2]

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

Film

YearTitleRoleType
1994 Muriel's Wedding Brice NobesFeature film
1996 Love and Other Catastrophes Michael DouglasFeature film
1996 Dating the Enemy RobFeature film
1996 The Beast CosgroveTV movie
1997 Kiss or Kill Al FletcherFeature film
1997The Two-Wheeled Time MachineHenry HowardShort film
1997 Doing Time for Patsy Cline RalphFeature film
1998 The Sugar Factory HarrisFeature film
2000 Muggers Brad ForrestFeature film
2000 The Love of Lionel's Life (aka Open Life)LionelTV movie
2001 My Brother Jack David MeredithTV movie
2001 The Green-Eyed Monster Liam McGuireTV movie
2002 The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Henry BaskervilleTV movie
2003 And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself John ReedTV movie
2005 Hell Has Harbour Views Hugh WalkerTV movie
2006 Scoop Jerry BurkeFeature film
2008The InformantCameron CliffordTV movie
2009 My Year Without Sex RossFeature film
2013 The Outlaw Michael Howe Magistrate Robert KnopwoodTV movie
2014 Dawn JohnTV movie
2015Touch
2017 Dance Academy: The Movie Barrister Jeff MenziesTV movie
2017 Sweet Country [10] Judge TaylorFeature film
2017The Mother SituationShort film (also director)
2018Reaching DistanceMartin
2024RuntFergus Fink

Television

YearTitleRoleType
1988 c/o The Bartons Paul BartonTV series
1988 House Rules
1989-93 A Country Practice Julian 'Luke' RossTV series
1994 The Bob Morrison Show Jake DuffyTV series
1995 Snowy River: The McGregor Saga Pete ReillyTV series
1996 Water Rats MatthewsTV series
2000 Farscape Councilor TynoTV series
2002 Shackleton Frank HurleyMiniseries
2003 Wild Down Under NarratorTV series
2006 Hotel Babylon RichardTV series
2006 Spooks Neil SterninTV series
2007 The Commander Eric ThorntonMiniseries
2009-10 Tangle Gabriel LucasTV series
2010 Underbelly: The Golden Mile Sid HillierTV series
2010-18 Rake David PotterTV series
2011 Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo Daniel RitchieMiniseries
2011 Secret Diary of a Call Girl ReceptionistTV series
2012 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Henry RhodesTV series
"King Memses' Curse" (S1:E13)
2014-18 Black Comedy Various rolesTV series
13 episodes
2017 Love Child Father RossTV series
2017 Wolf Creek BrianTV series
2019 Les Norton GeckoTV series
2019 Get Krack!n Brendan O'HaraTV series
2021 Harrow Dr BramsonTV series, 2 episodes
2021 The Unusual Suspects GarthMiniseries
2023 In Our Blood Jeremy Wilding4 episodes
2023-present Strife Jon Jones8 episodes
2024 Human Error Luke O'Rourke6 episodes

Theatre

YearTitleRoleType
2016Black Rabbit
The Game of Love and Chance New England Theatre Company
Man of the Moment Ensemble Theatre
1998 Six Degrees of Separation STC
1999Fred STC
2008 Scarlett O'Hara at the Crimson Parrot Playhouse
2009 The Wonderful World of Dissocia STC
2015North By Northwest MTC [11]

Writer/director

YearTitleType
2011BeatShort film
2003My EverythingShort film
2008WishShort film
2017The Mother SituationShort film (also actor)

Awards and nominations

YearNominated workAwardCategoryResult
1997 Kiss or Kill Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Actor in a Leading RoleNominated
1997 Kiss or Kill AFI Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated
2008WishTurner Classic Shorts2008 WinnerSpecial Mention
2017The Mother Situation25th Tropfest Short Film Festival2017 WinnerWon

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References

  1. Matt Day @ filmreference.com
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Rand, Hannah (3 May 2009) "Passions in practice", Sunday Magazine, p. 28
  3. Rand, Hannah (3 May 2009) "Passions in practice", Sunday Magazine, p. 27
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  8. Knox, David (3 February 2023). "Cast confirmed for in Our Blood | TV Tonight". tvtonight.com.au.
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