Matthew Phillion

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.