Matthew Walker (actor)

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Matthew Walker is an Australian actor.

Walker was born on 11 May 1979 in Hamilton, New Zealand

Towards the end of high school, Walker was cast in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Dark Night. After school, he completed a business and arts degree at Wellington's Victoria University, majoring in marketing, and theatre and film.

In 2001 he travelled to Melbourne after backpacking around Asia where he auditioned for, and was accepted into, the National Institute of Dramaitc Art NIDA, Australias leading drama school.

He graduated in 2004, and was immediately cast as the over-acheiving rich kid Heath Forbes in Seven Network's drama Headland.

Matthew has also appeared onstage with the Bell Shakespeare Company.

Matthew's mother and stepfather ran a theatre company Theatrevue in New Zealand when he was a child.