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Eric Matheny(I)

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Eric Matheny
Doctors are baffled when an expectant mother wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy apparently disappear overnight. Police investigate the situation as a missing child, and only her husband and brother trust her version of events.
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Eric Matheny is an actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and co-founder of The Acting Center, Los Angeles.

Matheny played movie star Joseph Cotten in Andrew Dominick's "Blonde," (2022), Dr. Max Jacobson (Dr. Feelgood) opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar," and the series lead on "That Guy," a FOX TV pilot directed by Betty Thomas.

He has starred in several movies of the week including "The Beach Boys: An American Family," and guest starred or recurred on numerous prime-time hit shows including: "Charmed," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "CSI," "NCIS," and "Bones."

Matheny started acting in Atlanta, Georgia at age 13. At age 16, he made his network TV debut as the star of the Emmy-nominated ABC Movie of the Week, "Run Down the Rabbit," opposite Roger E. Mosely.

Matheny's original screenplay "Watershed," is in pre-production with Nick Quested (Goldcrest Films) directing, and Brent Emery (Stanford Prison Experiment), Goldcrest Films, and Matheny producing.

Eric co-wrote the original screenplay "America" with Isa Totah and Will Potter. Oscar-winner Mark Johnson (Chronicles of Narnia) is on board to produce. Matheny also co-wrote "Lately" with Juliette Lewis, in pre-production with Killer Films.

The Acting Center is Matheny's passion project, where he and his co-founders developed a revolutionary technique that trains some of Hollywood's biggest names and freshest faces.

Eric is involved in numerous charitable organizations. He lives with his wife, Lissa Walker Matheny in Studio City, California.
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Known for

Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar (2011)
J. Edgar
6.5
  • Doctor
  • 2011
Mark Harmon, Maria Bello, Wilmer Valderrama, Rocky Carroll, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, and Diona Reasonover in NCIS (2003)
NCIS
7.8
TV Series
  • Former NCIS Agent Kip Klugman
Ana de Armas in Blonde (2022)
Blonde
5.5
  • Joseph Cotten
  • 2022
Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8.3
TV Series
  • Colm

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Actor

  • Reasonable Doubt (2022)
    Reasonable Doubt
    • Mark Noonan
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Ana de Armas in Blonde (2022)
    Blonde
    • Joseph Cotten
    • 2022
  • Fran Kranz in Fanboy (2019)
    Fanboy
    • Chuck
    • 2019
  • Mark Harmon, Maria Bello, Wilmer Valderrama, Rocky Carroll, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, and Diona Reasonover in NCIS (2003)
    NCIS
    • Former NCIS Agent Kip Klugman
    • TV Series
    • 2015
  • Robert Sheehan, Dev Patel, and Zoë Kravitz in The Road Within (2014)
    The Road Within
    • Matt
    • 2014
  • Thorsten Kaye and Michelle Stafford in The Stafford Project (2013)
    The Stafford Project
    • Duane
    • TV Series
    • 2013
  • Absence (2013)
    Absence
    • Rick
    • 2013
  • Marvin Marvin (2012)
    Marvin Marvin
    • FBI Agent
    • TV Series
    • 2013
  • Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar (2011)
    J. Edgar
    • Doctor
    • 2011
  • Non Sequitur (2009)
    Non Sequitur
    • Mike
    • Short
    • 2009
  • David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel in Bones (2005)
    Bones
    • Bob Caverly
    • TV Series
    • 2009
  • Struck (2008)
    Struck
    • Office Worker
    • Short
    • 2008
  • Real Men
    • Luke
    • Short
    • 2007
  • That Guy
    • Trent
    • TV Movie
    • 2006
  • David Caruso, Eva LaRue, Rex Linn, Omar Benson Miller, Emily Procter, Adam Rodriguez, and Jonathan Togo in CSI: Miami (2002)
    CSI: Miami
    • Seth Anderson
    • TV Series
    • 2006

Producer

  • Minnie Driver and Paul Adelstein in Return to Zero (2014)
    Return to Zero
    • associate producer
    • 2014

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    • 6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
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    • Lissa Walker MathenyNovember 18, 1995 - present
  • Other works
    Plays Luke in "Acts of Contrition" play by Sean Hanish (Zoo Theater, Hollywood, California, USA).

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    • Male

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    Founding partner of and teacher at The Acting Center, Los Angeles.

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