Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Matthew "Matt" Sunderland (born c.1972) is a New Zealand actor. He performed the lead role of David Gray in the feature film Out of the Blue, based on the events of the Aramoana Massacre. At the New Zealand Screen Awards in 2008 he won Best Actor Award for this role. Sunderland was also nominated for a Best Actor Award in the 2006 NZ Screen Awards for Natures Way, which screened In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. His other feature film...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Morning Hate
2024
as Sunken Man
On the Western Front in the web of trenches, stretcher-bearers must choose between their humanity and their job.
A Mistake
2024
as Owen
In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to clos...
Freedom Fighter
2023
There is no safe place to hide when the desire to dance calls Iuli'a, an overstayer, to choose between her own freedom and the safety of those she is ...
Tales from the Apocalypse
2022
as Mark
This gripping sci-fi anthology film features five thrilling stories about space travel and black holes, family and loss, and artificial intelligence.
The Stranger
2022
as Controller / Cleaner
Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative ...
Pearl
2022
as Father
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a...
Saviour
2022
as Reed
A troubled missionary, led by a rough Pākehā guide, treks through the forest of 1820s Aotearoa. On a journey to deliver a musket to a distant leader, ...
Bloody Hell
2020
as Father
A man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell... only to arrive somewhere much worse. In an effort to survive this ne...
A Moray
2019
as Marlon
A miserable fishing enthusiast must overcome the darker creature that lives inside him to reconnect with his wife.
Savage
2019
as Dad
Inspired by the true stories of New Zealand's street gangs across 30 years, we follow Danny at three defining moments in his life as he grows from a b...
The Nightingale
2018
as Davey
In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of v...
6 Days
2017
as Tom Lovett
London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authori...
The Lost City of Z
2017
as Dan
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilizati...
Cradle
2016
as Mark
Eade is a fourteen year old girl who has spent her entire life on the spaceship Cradle. Eade and her dad are on the return journey to Earth when an ex...
Backtrack
2015
as Steve, Barry's Brother
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients sh...
The Little Death
2014
as Wiry Man
A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies.
The Weight of Elephants
2013
as Uncle Rory
Adrian is a classic outsider. His playful, dreamy imagination distracts him from everyday life, for the reality he lives in could not be more differen...
Existence
2012
as Rider
Trapped behind the Boundary Fence, Freya dreams of escape and pursues a dangerous outsider who can free her.
The Devil's Rock
2011
as Col Klaus Meyer
Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Norm...
Vostok Station
2009
The sole survivor of a catastrophic event experiences a moment of beauty.
Poppy
2009
as Paddy
Poppy is a Performance-Captured CGI drama set on France's western front in World War One. Two New Zealand soldiers are trapped behind enemy lines and ...
Kiss Me Deadly
2008
as Vigo
Settled into a cozy home life in Milan with his boyfriend Paolo and his daughter Julia, photographer and ex-spy Jacob Keane is suddenly drawn back int...
The Last Magic Show
2007
as Lemuel
An emotionally traumatized stage magician has "escaped" into a fantasy world where he has real magical powers, but his career has taken him to perfor...
Out of the Blue
2006
as David Gray
Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside t...
Woodenhead
2003
as Gustav the Strongman
An innocent rubbish tip assistant, Gert, is given the task of escorting a beautiful mute "princess", Plum, on a perilous journey to meet her prospecti...
Woodenhead
2003
as Tramp's vocals
An innocent rubbish tip assistant, Gert, is given the task of escorting a beautiful mute "princess", Plum, on a perilous journey to meet her prospecti...
Christmas
2003
as Brett
"This singular, bleakly funny, R-rated vision of Kiwi life clinches King's position as the most distinctive new voice in NZ film, as insistent and ine...
Teach You a Lesson
2000
as Brother
In this alarming early short from Gregory King a 13-year-old boy's shoplifting escapade is narrated brilliantly by actress Madeleine Sami who performs...
POP
1999
as MAN
An experimental twist on the "fly on the wall" film. Here a handheld camera becomes the fly and the connection between three groups of modern city dwe...