Matthew Willson

Matthew Willson is a Canadian actor and director who started performing as a child in Paris, Ontario, and only began pursuing acting seriously in his early twenties. He has more than 500 stage performances behind him, and his early work was mostly in theater, where he earned recognition on stages across Ontario. His training includes stage combat, comedy, improvisation and singing, and he studied with various performance teachers and coaches. On screen he has been seen in the TV series Queer as Folk, Rookie Blue, Murdoch Mysteries and The Strain, and he appeared in Arrival alongside Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. He also helped adapt and then produced and starred in the 2010 feature Skinning the Cat, based on a Fringe stage play, which won notice at international film festivals. Through Willson Entertainment Productions he produced, directed and acted in short films, some shown at the Toronto Short Film Festival.