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Matt Frewer

  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Producer
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Matt Frewer
Out to avenge his mother's death, a college student pledges a secret order and lands in a war between werewolves and practitioners of dark magic.
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The Order (2019–2020)
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Matt Frewer has been travelling all over North America in recent months filming recurring roles. Most recently, he worked in Los Angeles for HBO's Perry Mason and in Austin for AMC's Fear The Walking Dead. In Vancouver portrayed Carnage in Netflix's sci-fi drama Altered Carbon (2018); in Montreal (opposite Dennis Quaid) as Anthony Bruhl in NBC's Timeless (2016); in Toronto as Paul Rice in Crackle's The Art of More (2015), and also in Toronto as Dr. Leekie on BBC America's award-winning Orphan Black (2013); and in Brooklyn, New York as Dr. J. M. Christiansen in Steven Soderbergh's gritty early-20th century hospital drama The Knick (2014).

Frewer's film credits include Steven Spielberg's The BFG (2016), 20th Century Fox's Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), 50/50 (2011) (with Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Foreverland (2011), Frankie & Alice (2010) (with Halle Berry), and as Moloch in Zack Snyder's Watchmen (2009). He appeared in Snyder's 2004 film, Dawn of the Dead (2004). He filmed Attack on Darfur (2009) in South Africa and played the lead in the action/adventure film Wushu Warrior (2011), which was filmed in China. Other work on the big screen includes playing "Big Russ Thompson" in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), and Jobe Smith, the nefarious computer genius in Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1995). Frewer starred in four Sherlock Holmes films for Muse Entertainment, CTV and the Odyssey Channel.

He performed leading roles in numerous television movies & miniseries, including Nick Willing's Alice (2009) (as the White Knight; for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award). He reunited with Nick Willing to play Daedalus in 13 episodes of Olympus (2015). Frewer starred in the television miniseries Delete (2013) for Brightlight Pictures, A&E's miniseries Bag of Bones (2011) with Pierce Brosnan, Hallmark's Battle of the Bulbs (2010), and in Spielberg's Taken (2002). He played an arsonist known as the " Trashcan Man" in the Stephen King-scripted ABC miniseries, The Stand (1994).

In addition to his recent television work, Cable Ace and Gemini award-winning Frewer is a familiar face on the Emmy-nominated DreamWorks/TNT Falling Skies (2011) as well as Eureka (Sci-Fi), Intelligence (CBC), and Doctor, Doctor (CBS). He made guest appearances on such prime time network television series as St. Elsewhere, Miami Vice, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Other notable turns on television include portraying such real-life notable individuals as U.S. Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer in American Playhouse's Long Shadows (1994) (PBS), Alexander Haig in Kissinger and Nixon (1995) (TNT), and Gene Kranz in the made-for-television movie Apollo 11 (1996).
BornJanuary 4, 1958
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BornJanuary 4, 1958
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  • Awards
    • 3 wins & 7 nominations

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Matt Frewer in Shaky Ground (1992)
Matt Frewer, Judy Kain, and Richard Riehle in Shaky Ground (1992)
Matt Frewer in Shaky Ground (1992)
Matt Frewer in Altered Carbon (2018)
Matt Frewer in Max Headroom (1987)
Matt Frewer in Max Headroom (1987)
Matt Frewer and Jake Manley in The Order (2019)
Matt Frewer and Heather Donahue in Taken (2002)
Matt Frewer and Heather Donahue in Taken (2002)
Matt Frewer and Peter Bryant in Taken (2002)
Matt Frewer and Heather Donahue in Taken (2002)
Matt Frewer and James McDaniel in Taken (2002)

Known for

Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson in Watchmen (2009)
Watchmen
7.6
  • Moloch
  • 2009
James Woods, Danny DeVito, Matt Frewer, Bobcat Goldthwait, Rip Torn, Tate Donovan, Josh Keaton, Roger Bart, and Susan Egan in Hercules (1997)
Hercules
7.3
  • Panic(voice)
  • 1997
Sarah Polley in Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Dawn of the Dead
7.3
  • Frank
  • 2004
Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, and Josh Gad in Pixels (2015)
Pixels
5.6
  • Max Headroom(voice)
  • 2015

Credits

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Actor

  • Doctor Doctor
    • Dr. Mike Stratford
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 1989–1991
  • Matthew Rhys in Perry Mason (2020)
    Perry Mason
    • Judge Fred Wright
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Stella Maeve, Summer Bishil, Hale Appleman, Olivia Taylor Dudley, and Arjun Gupta in The Magicians (2015)
    The Magicians
    • The Binder
    • TV Series
    • 2019–2020
  • Kim Dickens and Lennie James in Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
    Fear the Walking Dead
    • Logan
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Sarah Grey and Jake Manley in The Order (2019)
    The Order
    • Peter Morton
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Castlevania (2017)
    Castlevania
    • The Bishop (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2017–2018
  • Patrick Dempsey in The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2018)
    The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
    • Reverend Kellergan
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2018
  • Joel Kinnaman in Altered Carbon (2018)
    Altered Carbon
    • Carnage
    • TV Series
    • 2018
  • Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black (2013)
    Orphan Black
    • Dr. Aldous Leekie
    • TV Series
    • 2013–2017
  • Matt Frewer, William B. Davis, Costas Mandylor, Paul Vigano, Blaine Anderson, James Clayton, Michael Matic, and Taylor Hickson in Residue (2017)
    Residue
    • Mr. Fairweather
    • 2017
  • Malcolm Barrett, Abigail Spencer, Goran Visnjic, Matt Lanter, Claudia Doumit, and Sheldon Landry in Timeless (2016)
    Timeless
    • Anthony Bruhl
    • TV Series
    • 2016–2017
  • Cary Elwes, Dennis Quaid, Kate Bosworth, and Christian Cooke in The Art of More (2015)
    The Art of More
    • Paul Rice
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Amanda Schull and Aaron Stanford in 12 Monkeys (2015)
    12 Monkeys
    • Dr. Albert Kirschner
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Mark Rylance and Ruby Barnhill in The BFG (2016)
    The BFG
    • General #2
    • 2016
  • Luke Perry and Emmanuelle Vaugier in Love in Paradise (2016)
    Love in Paradise
    • Dr. Frank
    • TV Movie
    • 2016
  • Tom York in Olympus (2015)
    Olympus
    • Daedalus
    • Prometheus
    • TV Series
    • 2015

Writer

  • PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996)
    PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
    • writer
    • TV Series
    • 1998
  • The Original Max Talking Headroom Show (1987)
    The Original Max Talking Headroom Show
    • additional material
    • TV Series
    • 1987

Producer

  • PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996)
    PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
    • associate producer
    • TV Series
    • 1996
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Personal details

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  • Height
    • 6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
  • Born
    • January 4, 1958
    • Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  • Spouse
    • Amanda HillwoodNovember 10, 1984 - present (1 child)
  • Children
    • Scout Frewer
  • Parents
      Gillian Anne Frewer
  • Other works
    TV commercials for New Coke (as Max Headroom)
  • Publicity listings
    • 3 Interviews
    • 1 Pictorial
    • 1 Magazine Cover Photo

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    Has appeared in six films/mini-series based on the works of Stephen King (The Stand, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, Quicksilver Highway, Riding the Bullet, Desperation and Bag of Bones) - more than any other actor.
  • Quotes
    I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself. Then, I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got high marks in it. I decided I didn't want to be removing worms' hearts for the rest of my life in Northern Ontario. I thought I would try acting. So, I went to England to study drama. I got Shakespeared out. I was sick of "thee" and "thou." You spend so much time talking like that you develop a lisp.
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      His shaved head in his later years

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