Matthew trained at Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre.
His theatre credits include: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? (Trafalgar Studios), Victory (Arcola), Endgame (Liverpool Everyman), Oh What a Lovely War & Blue Remembered Hills (Octagon, Bolton), Forgotten Voices (Edinburgh Festival & Riverside Studios), Amadeus (Wilton’s Music Hall), Of Mice and Men (Savoy - Olivier award, best actor 2004), Mirandolina (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Don Quixote (Birmingham rep), Twelfth Night & Season’s Greetings (UK tours), Funny Peculiar (West End), Kafka’s Dick (York) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Young Vic), The Pied Piper (National Theatre Tour), Waiting for Godot (Oxford Playhouse), Rough CrossingThe Cabinet of Doktor Caligari (Salisbury), (Nottingham Playhouse and Lyric, Hammersmith).
His film credits include: Gabrielle and the Doodleman, Showreel, Snot, Tribute. His television credits include: Cold Blood, Bleak House, Egypt, My Family at War, Forensic Casebook, Where The Heart Is, Miss Marple, City Hospital, Stars in their Eyes, You Bet, Relative Strangers.