Matthew Le Nevez

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Matthew Matt Le Nevez born 10 January 1979 is an Australian actor He is best known for his roles as Doctor Patrick Reid in the TV series Offspring and as Detective Brian Dutch in the Tasmanian Gothic scifi television show The Kettering Incident Le Nevez was born in Canberra Australian Capital Territory ACT in 1979 and attended The FrenchAustralian Preschool Telopea Park School and St Edmunds College Canberra before accepted into NIDA aged 17 He graduated in 1999 Le Nevez took a small role in an Australianmade scifi series Farscape followed by a part in teen drama Head Start In 2002 he appeared in his first feature film Garage Days playing a drugfuelled 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 breakthrough 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 ManThing 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 WalesKing 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 Le Nevez 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 comedydrama 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 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 Packers War about Kerry Packers World Series Cricket He played the part of Damien Parer in the 2014 television film Parers War In 2014 despite leaving Offspring to pursue acting in America it was reported that Le Nevez was joining the cast of Australian TV series Love Child It was announced in July 2014 that he would be costarring in upcoming drama series The Kettering Incident In 2016 he starred in Brock a Channel 10 miniseries as Australian motor racing legend Peter Brock