Matthew Ferguson

Matthew Ferguson (born 3 April 1973 in Toronto ( Toronto Islands ), Ontario ) is a Canadian actor.

Life and achievements

Matthew Ferguson was born on Toronto Islands. He also lives on those of the City of Toronto islands with about 700 inhabitants. At age five he demonstrated to stop the resettle the people and wanted to build a park in a human chain around a government project. Finally, the residents could buy the lease for 99 years in 1992. Partly for this resistance movement was born in 1983 Shadowland Theatre Group, later the Swizzle Stick Theatre emerged from the stilt. Ferguson is an active member and performed in street theater. He learned to walk on stilts and led this skill for years at Caribana, the Toronto Carnival, before. Other hobbies are sports, hockey, mountain climbing and mimicking accents.

Ferguson graduated from the Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts, a drama school in Toronto. Shortly after the death of his mother was his first theater role in 1989, at the age of 16 years, in Geometry in Venice as Morgan Moreen. For this illustration, he was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award. A major role he took over in 1992 in the film Simons longing ( On My Own). He was nominated for an AFI Award Institute for Best Actor from the Australian Film in 1993. A scene with him in The Long Kiss Goodnight ( The Long Kiss Goodnight ) (1996 ), in which he gave Geena Davis a long goodnight kiss and gave the English name of the film was cut.

In the theater he played Lucio in Measure for Measure (Measure For Measure), a drama by William Shakespeare. In November 2000, he stood as Ian MacNeil in the play The Glace Bay Miners' Museum in Sudbury on stage. The material is based on a short story by Sheldon Currie, which was also filmed.

A medium-sized supporting role Ferguson is presented in Love and Human Remains (1993 ) by director Denys Arcand and was nominated for a 1994 Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor. Two more nominations for this Canadian price he received in 1996 as Best Actor for Under the Black Sun ( 1995) and Lilies - theater of the Fall ( 1996). In excellent with nine Oscars movie The English Patient (1996 ) by director Anthony Minghella is Ferguson to see in a small role as a wounded soldier.

Matthew Ferguson is known primarily as a computer genius Seymour Birkoff in the dramatic spy series Nikita (1997-2001) with Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Eugene Robert Glazer and Alberta Watson. In 1998 he was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Supporting Actor in this television series. In the horror thriller Cube 2: Hypercube (2002), he portrayed a medium-sized secondary role in the drama Players Owning Mahowny (2003) in some scenes a minor supporting role.

Filmography (selection)

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