Biography
Matt Day (born 28 September 1971) is an Australian actor and filmmaker. Day made in his first role at the age 14 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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Runt
2024
as Fergus Fink
In the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to win the Agility Course Championship at the Krumpets Dog ...

The Mirror
2019
as Paul
When a young girl discovers a mysterious antique mirror in the basement of her ailing grandmother's house, she accidentally opens a window between tim...

Reaching Distance
2018
as Martin
Logan, a cynic with a photographic memory, follows his sister's killer onto a night-rider bus. As the line between past and present begins to blur on ...

Sweet Country
2018
as Judge Taylor
In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.

Perry
2016
Writer, Producer, Editor
A drug dealer outstays his welcome at a middle-class dinner party.

Dawn
2015
as John
A woman running from a terrible truth hides out in a remote hills town with her young daughter until her past catches up with her and an impossible ch...

The Outlaw Michael Howe
2013
as Magistrate Robert Knopwood
1814. Van Diemen’s Land, the notorious British penal colony, has dissolved into chaos. Outlaws roaming the wilderness have pushed the colonial governm...

My Year Without Sex
2009
as Ross
A tender story from Australia highlights the realistic ups and downs of an Australian family in the year following a parent's emergency medical proced...

The Informant
2008
as Cameron Clifford
McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, wi...

The Blitz: London's Longest Night
2007
as William White
Details the German bombing of London the night of the 29th of December, in 1940.
Wish
2007
Director
Two girls, two boys, a game where nobody wins.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2006
as Pizza Delivery Boy
The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everyth...

Scoop
2006
as Jerry Burke
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

Hell Has Harbour Views
2005
as Hugh Walker
Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on ...

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
2003
as John Reed
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing gu...

The Hound of the Baskervilles
2002
as Sir Henry Baskerville
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called in to unravel a mysterious curse that has plagued the Baskerville family for generations. When Sir Charles B...
The Love of Lionel's Life
2000
as Lionel
Lionel Burke is young, single and living in a remote Queensland mining town. Life is pretty good apart from the impossible odds of falling in love. Ke...

Muggers
2000
as Brad Forrest
When two medical students find themselves dangerously indebted to a sadistic loan shark, they become embroiled in an illicit black-market organ transp...

The Sugar Factory
1999
as Harris Berne
With his distinctive voice and unusual view of life, Harris takes us through his story: a harrowing journey of humour, grief, resolution and redemptio...

Fetch
1998
A first date: he shows up at her flat, several stories up in her building. She's finishing getting ready, so she introduces him to her dog, which love...

Doing Time for Patsy Cline
1997
as Ralph
Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nas...

Kiss or Kill
1997
as Al Fletcher
Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After ac...

The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
1997
as Henry Howard
Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry ...

Dating the Enemy
1996
as Rob
Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they will ever truly understand each other. On their firs...

Love and Other Catastrophes
1996
as Michael Douglas
A day in the life of two film school students trying to find love and another housemate.

This Marching Girl Thing
1995
as Peter
Cindy is a baton twirler with the Southern Twirlettes. Make-up, hair, letards, sequins and stockings...she looks like she fits in. She's just beginnin...

Muriel's Wedding
1994
as Brice Nobes
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
Killing Breed
N/A
Director, Writer
a family, desperately fighting for survival at an isolated Outback lodge, against a raging bushfire, out of control and consuming everything in its pa...