Matthew Le Nevez
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Matthew (Matt) Le Nevez (born 1978) is an award winning Australian actor.
[edit] Early Life
Le Nevez was born in Canberra, Australia in 1978 and attended St Edmond's College, Canberra before attending NIDA, graduating in 1999.
[edit] Career
Le Nevez took a small in Australian made sci-fi series Farscape, followed by a part in teen drama Head Start. In 2002 he appeared in his first feature film Garage Days playing a drug-fulled rock star. He played Aaron Reynolds, acomplice to the notorious Brenden James Abbott the "Post Card Bandit" in the TV miniseries of the same name.
In 2003 came a break-through role, that of rough and ready Bullet Sheather in the ABC Television miniseries Marking Time, for which Le Nevez won an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2004.
The film Peaches saw him sharing a screen with Hugo Weaving and Jacqueline McKenzie but it was the role in 2006 of notorious Mathew Wales (convicted of the murders of his mother Margaret Wales-King and step-father Paul King) in the TV movie The Society Murders that won Le Nevez critical acclaim. He won the Best New Talent Logie Award in 2006.
Le Nevez is currently filming The Tender Hook in Melbourne. Written and directed by Jonathan Ogilvie it is the story of Iris (Rose Byrne) and a love triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath and Art (Matt Le Nevez), an earnest young boxer.
