Matthew Paul "Matt" Walsh (born October 13, 1964) is an American actor, writer and comedian.
Walsh was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Hinsdale South High School, Northern Illinois University, and spent a year in Austria at Salzburg College.
Along with Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, and Ian Roberts, he is a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade improv comedy troupe and played "Trotter" in the troupe's sketch comedy series, which ran f...
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Matthew Paul "Matt" Walsh (born October 13, 1964) is an American actor, writer and comedian.
Walsh was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Hinsdale South High School, Northern Illinois University, and spent a year in Austria at Salzburg College.
Along with Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, and Ian Roberts, he is a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade improv comedy troupe and played "Trotter" in the troupe's sketch comedy series, which ran for three seasons on Comedy Central. Before the show, the UCB comedy foursome had already been doing improv shows at their theatre in New York, which used to be a burlesque house before they remodeled it to become a theatre. To date, they have founded two successful Upright Citizens Brigade comedy theaters located in New York and Los Angeles.
Besides his work with the Upright Citizens Brigade, he has also had memorable appearances in many popular comedy films over the last several years including Old School and Semi-Pro. Walsh also wrote and...
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