Matthew Le Nevez Biography

Matthew (Matt) Le Nevez (born 10 January 1979 in Canberra) is an award-winning Australian actor. He is best known for his role as Dr Patrick Reid in the TV series Offspring, he was also best known for his film role in Man-Thing and Parer's War.

Early life

Le Nevez was born in Canberra in 1979 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. In 2014, Le Nevez and his partner Michelle Smith welcomed their son Levi Le Nevez.

Le Nevez is an avid supporter of Richmond in the AFL and Canberra Raiders in the NRL.

Career

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-fuelled rock star. He then played Aaron Reynolds, accomplice 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 Television Award in 2004 for Best Actor in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama or Comedy.

In 2005 Le Nevez star in his first american film in one Marvel feature film Man-Thing as Sheriff Kyle Williams.

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 Margaret Wales-King and stepfather Paul King) in the TV movie The Society Murders that won Le Nevez critical acclaim. He won the Most Outstanding Actor on Australian television Logie Award in 2006.

Le Nevez stars in the Australian film The Tender Hook. Written and directed by Jonathan Ogilvie, it is the story of Iris (Rose Byrne) and a love triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath and Art (Matt Le Nevez), an earnest young boxer. The film also stars his previous acting colleague, Hugo Weaving.

Matt has also recently appeared as the boyfriend of "Kate" (Sibylla Budd) in the Come Walkabout commercial for Tourism Australia, directed by Baz Luhrmann.

In 2010, he appeared in Legend of the Seeker as Leo, the new Seeker. In 2011, he became a regular in the Network Ten comedy/drama Offspring as anaethetist Dr Patrick Reid, and continued in season 3 (2012), 4 (2013) and after his characters death in dream sequences during season 5 (2014). His character was killed off due to his choice to leave the show in 12th episode of season 4 on the 7 August 2013, and made Australian headlines following an outpouring of grief from Offspring fans.

In 2012 he played the part of former Australian cricketer Dennis Lillee in the miniseries Howzat! Kerry Packer's War about Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket.

He played the part of Damien Parer in the 2014 television film Parer's War.

In 2014 despite leaving Offspring to pursue acting in America it was reported that Le Nevez was joining the cast of Australian T.V. series Love Child. It was announced in July 2014 that he would be co-starring in upcoming drama series The Kettering Incident.

In 2016 he is going to be starring in Brock, a Channel 10 miniseries, starring as Peter Brock.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Garage Days	Tobey
2004	Peaches	Brian
2005	A Family Legacy	NZ Batsman 1	short film
	Man-Thing	Sheriff Kyle Williams
	Feed	Nigel
2006	Emulsion	Actor	short film
2007	What They Don't Know	Stan	short film
2008	The Tender Hook	Art Worker
2011	Deserted	Boyfriend	short film

Televison

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Farscape	Cavemen Crichton	1 episode
2001	Head Start	Terry Vaughan	3 episodes
	All Saints	Andy Barton	1 episode
2002	MDA	Sam Livingstone	4 episodes
2003	White Collar Blue	Larry Drevo	1 episode
	The Postcard Bandit	Aaron Reynolds	TV movie
	Marking Time	Bullet Sheater	TV movie
2004	Blue Heelers	Matt Procter	1 episode
	Love My Way	Jai	1 episode
2006	The Society Murders	Matthew Wales	TV movie
2007	Sea Patrol	Jullian Wiseman	1 episode
2010	Legend of the Seeker	Leo	3 episode
	Cops LAC	Ben Ellis	1 episode
2011-2014	Offspring	Patrick Reid	Main role
2012	Howzat! Kerry Packer's War	Dennis Lilee	mini-serie
2013	The Glades	Alexanders Barnes	1 episode
2014	Parer's War	Damien Parer	TV movie
2015	The Kettering Incident	Brian Dutch	8 episodes
	The Lizzie Borden Chronicles	Bat Masterson	2 episode
	Love Child	Jim Marsh	8 episodes
	Runner	Adam	TV movie
2016	Brock	Peter Brock	TV movie

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Work	Result
2004	AFI Television Award for Best Actor in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama or Comedy	Marking Time
2007	Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor	The Society Murders
2013	Logie Award for Most Popular Actor	Offspring
2014	Logie Award for Most Popular Actor