Matthew Frias

Matthew Frias is an American actor who grew up just outside Dallas, Texas, and first took to performing through Destination Imagination, a creative arts program at his elementary school. He played lead roles in the theater program in middle school, then studied with local acting teachers and signed with an agent and manager. His first screen part came in the sports drama When the Game Stands Tall (2014), which stars Jim Caviezel, Laura Dern and Michael Chiklis and follows the 151-game winning streak of a Concord, California high school. After moving to Los Angeles he made his television debut on the MTV series Awkward. He also starred in the independent coming of age film Akron (2015) as Benny, a young man searching for his place while coping with a family tragedy, and appeared in the features Where the Bad Kids Go and By Way of Helena (2015).