Matt Letscher

Matt Letscher is an American actor, playwright, and director who was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He got his first professional job at Jeff Daniels's Purple Rose Theatre Company in The Tropic Pickle, and Daniels helped arrange a meeting with Gettysburg director Ron Maxwell. Letscher played a small role in that film, then moved to Los Angeles. In 1995 he was cast as a naive television writer in the sitcom Almost Perfect, and in 1998 he became a series regular on Living in Captivity. That year he appeared in The Mask of Zorro (1998) as Captain Harrison Love. His film work includes Towelhead (2007), Straight-Jacket (2004), Devil's Knot (2013), Her (2013), and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016). He portrayed Eobard Thawne, or Reverse-Flash, in The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow, and wrote plays including Sea of Fools. The comedy pilot Gentrification, which he co-wrote, won a best writing prize at the Comedy Central New York Television Festival.