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Matthew Walker is a New Zealand–born Australian-trained actor and performer.




Early life


Walker was born on 11 May 1982 in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Walker trained at the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Australia's leading drama school, boasting graduates such as Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette and Sam Worthington. He was accepted into NIDA in 2002, after auditioning alongside over 4,000 other people for the 20 places in the school's acting course. He graduated in 2004.
Walker also completed a business and arts degree at Victoria University of Wellington, majoring in marketing, and theatre and film.




Career






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Walker played the leading role of Adam Martini in Danish / New Zealand co-production Straight Forward. Described as an 'international crime caper', the big budget 8-part series was filmed in Auckland, Queenstown and Copenhagen.
He appeared in the TVNZ drama Dirty Laundry as bad guy Nikki Rossini, and played a recurring character, Ford Hathaway, in the second season of TVNZ's Filthy Rich. He also played Vince Cully, a recurring character in the final season of Australian Channel 7 series 800 Words.
Walker is well known for his role as Justin Jefferies, the elder brother of Aden Jefferies in the popular Channel 7 soap Home and Away.
Other television credits include Rake, The Cut (for the ABC), and Legend of the Seeker (for Disney). Walker currently plays Dr. Karl Vanderbeck in New Zealand's popular prime time drama series Shortland Street.




= Film

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Walker appeared in Chinese war epic The Children of Huang Shi alongside Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.




= Stage

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Walker has appeared on-stage in Much Ado About Nothing at the Sydney Opera House with the Bell Shakespeare Company, in the world premiere of Colder with Griffin Theatre Company and in the Australasian premiere of Tracey Letts' Bug. He also played Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Mendelssohn with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy.




Filmography






= Film

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= Television

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= Directing

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Stage






References






External links


Matthew Walker at IMDb

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