Matthew Tompkins

Matthew Tompkins is an actor, filmmaker and producer who started out making Super 8 movies as a child and went on to study acting at Whitworth University, where he earned a degree in English literature and theater arts in 1989. He wrote and directed student productions there, then moved to New York City, where he acted and wrote plays for Off-Broadway companies and studied with Uta Hagen and Bill Hickey at HB Studios. After settling in Dallas in 1991, he took recurring television roles on Walker, Texas Ranger and the children's series Wishbone, and built a long list of credits in episodic shows, television movies, features and commercials. Dallas and Fort Worth theater critics named him best actor seven times between 1993 and 2009. He played Nelson Algren Off-Broadway in Transatlantic Liaison, appeared in Parkland (2013), and founded Wolfclan Productions in 2007.