Matthew Phillion
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Matt Phillion was born March 7, 1977 in Somerville, Massachusetts, and later moved
with his family to Melrose, MA as a child. He graduated from Melrose
High School, and in 1995 completed a degree in English at Merrimack
College in North Andover, MA, where he was an active member of the
theater community. He decided to "retire" from acting at age 23,
spending the next five years pursuing a writing career -- as a local
newspaper reporter, freelancer, health care writer, and even comic book
industry journalist. On a whim he stumbled into an audition for the
short film Iris in 2005. A few months later another short film, Near
Greenwood, cemented his renewed desire to work in film again. Since
that time, he has appeared in over a dozen independent short films.
Livestock marked his feature film debut. In 2009 he will appear in a
Web-based television series, Gavin Lance.