Matt Ficner

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Matt Ficner
Born1973 (age 5051)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s) Film actor
Television actor
Puppeteer
Entrepreneur
Known forPuppet design
Parent(s)Debbie Ficner (mother)
John Ficner (Father)

Matt Ficner (born 1973) is a Canadian actor, puppeteer, and entrepreneur. [1] For over two decades, Matt has been involved in television, film and theatre projects. [2] As president of Matt Ficner Productions Inc., he received a Top Forty Under 40 award from the Ottawa Business Journal in 2006 in recognition of entrepreneurial success. [3]

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He worked with the puppets on the movie Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium [4] and has worked on multiple kids shows like Caillou and Ace Lightning . On Ace Lightning, Ficner designed the computer-generated characters for the series, and also provided the voices of the characters Zip and Snip in the first season. In 2008, Boingboing.net featured one of Mr. Ficner's Creepy Puppet shorts called Dusty Zombies. [5] In 2009 he acted and did puppetry on the webseries Spellfury . [4] He created the character of Dennis the raccoon for the Canadian television series Wingin' It . [6]

Filmography

As actor

As puppeteer

As writer, producer, director

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References

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