Matthew Le Nevez

Matthew (Matt) Le Nevez (born 1978) is an award winning Australian actor. Le Nevez was born in Canberra, Australia in 1978 and attended The French-Australian School, Telopea Park School and St Edmund's College, Canberra before accepted into NIDA aged 17. He graduated in 1999. Le Nevez took a small role in an Australian made sci-fi series Farscape, followed by a part in teen drama Head Start. In 2002 he appeared in his first feature film Garage Da... more

Matthew (Matt) Le Nevez (born 1978) is an award winning Australian actor. Le Nevez was born in Canberra, Australia in 1978 and attended The French-Australian School, Telopea Park School and St Edmund's College, Canberra before accepted into NIDA aged 17. He graduated in 1999. Le Nevez took a small role in an Australian made sci-fi series Farscape, followed by a part in teen drama Head Start. In 2002 he appeared in his first feature film Garage Days playing a drug-fulled rock star. He then played Aaron Reynolds, acomplice to the notorious Brenden James Abbott the Post Card Bandit in the TV miniseries of the same name. In 2003 came a break-through role, that of rough and ready Bullet Sheather in the ABC Television miniseries Marking Time, for which Le Nevez won an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2004. The film Peaches saw him sharing a screen with Hugo Weaving and Jacqueline McKenzie, but it was the role in 2006 of notorious Mathew Wales (convicted of the murders of his mother... less