Matt Holland (actra, caea, uda, wgc)

Matt Holland is an actor and screenwriter from Montreal. Throughout his career, he has appeared in many films, plays, television shows and commercials. Credits include: Map of the Human Heart, Mrs Parker and The Vicious Circle, Danielle Steele’s Vanished, Blanche, Barney’s Great Adventure, The Aviator, Secret Window, The Day After Tomorrow, The Terminal, Autrui, Ruptures, Les Pays d’en Haut and the recent feature film, Iqaluit. He has lent his voice to video games such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Thief, and the Deus Ex series, and to such animated series’ as Arthur, Pig City, Creep School, Daft Planet, What’s With Andy? as well as the animated feature, Pinocchio 3000. Matt is a past president of ACTRA Montreal and works as a story editor/script consultant. He was also a content analyst for the English television division of Telefilm Canada and served as CTV Montreal’s Manager of Development and Production.

Matt is a graduate of the M.A. program in Creative Writing (English Literature) at Concordia University and of both the Writer’s Lab and the Professional Screenwriting Programme at The Canadian Film Centre. Produced work includes short scripts (Drop Off, Whistleblowers Anonymous), feature films (Gone Dark, a.k.a. The Limit) and episodic television (Moose TV). Fluently bilingual, Matt co-wrote and co-created the comedy series Toi & Moi, which ran for 3 seasons on Ici-Radio-Canada and ARTV. He is currently developing two new comedy series (one in English, the other in French) as well as adapting Toi & Moi for an English audience.