Matthew Walker (Australian actor)
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Matthew Walker is an Australian and New Zealand 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 Victoria University of Wellington, 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 Dramatic Art NIDA, Australia's leading drama school.
He graduated in 2004, and was immediately cast as the over-achieving rich kid Heath Forbes in Seven Network's drama headLand.
Matthew was recently cast in the Chinese war epic The Children of Huang Shi appearing alongside Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.
He has also appeared on-stage at the Sydney Opera House with the Bell Shakespeare Company.
Matthew's mother and stepfather ran a theatre company Theatrevue in New Zealand when he was a child.
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