Matthew trained as an actor at the Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre. 

Theatre credits include: Of Mice And Men (Olivier Award for Best Actor – Savoy Theatre); The Jew Of Malta, Volpone and Love’s Sacrifice (RSC); Troilus And Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe); Big – The Musical (Dominion Theatre); Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Trafalgar Studios); Waiting For Godot, Sign Of The Times and Lend Me A Tenor (West End); The Seagull (Southwark Playhouse); Funny Peculiar (Liverpool Everyman and West End); Twelfth Night and Endgame (Liverpool Everyman); The Dresser (Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour); The Box Of Delights and Amadeus (Wilton’s Music Hall); Desire Under The Elms and The History Boys (Sheffield Crucible); Pride And Prejudice (Regent’s Park Theatre and UK tour); Toast (Park Theatre and 59E59 in New York); To Sir With Love (Northampton and UK tour); God Of Carnage (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton); Educating Rita (Menier Chocolate Factory, on tour and Edinburgh Festival); Mirandolina (Manchester Royal Exchange); Oh What A Lovely War! (Bolton Octagon) and UK tours of Spamalot, Legally Blonde and The Habit Of Art. 

Television credits include: ITV’s award-winning thriller Cold Blood; Benidorm; Bleak House; Egypt: The Pharaoh And The Showman and Egypt: The Temple Of The Sands; MI High; Moving On; Marple; Casualty; Heartbeat; My Family At War and the documentary series Forensic Casebook.  

Presenting credits include: You Bet!, Stars in Their Eyes and, most recently, Channel 5’s series Top Of The Box.