Matthew Bennett

Matthew Ray Bennett (born April 9, 1968) is a Canadian actor, writer and director. At the age of 20 he moved from his hometown of Toronto, Ontario to Vancouver, British Columbia to pursue an acting career. He studied theater school for two years and after that acted in TV series including The X-Files and The Commish and telefilms such as A Killer Among Friends, Anything for Love and Relentless: Mind of a Killer. He currently resides in Vancouver but works in Toronto as well.

Matthew is best known for his part as Detective Len Harper on the Canadian police drama Cold Squad for which he has been nominated for both a Gemini and Leo award. Next to that he played the lead role of Lieutenant James Calley on the Showtime series Total Recall 2070 and the 1998 telefilm by the same name. Next to that, he guest starred in many TV series like Stargate SG-1, The Peacemakers, Da Vinci's Inquest, Criminal Minds and At the Hotel. In recent years, Bennett has had a recurring guest role on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica. Playing the character Aaron Doral, a Cylon, he first appeared in the 2003 mini-series and his final appearance was in the series finale in March 2009. However, Bennett also appeared in the TV movie Battlestar Galactica: The Plan.

Matthew Bennett (TV producer)

Matthew (Matt) Bennett is an American television producer and director and former Broadway stage actor.

Career

Theater

From 1986 until 2003, Bennett was an actor in New York City. He made a career on the New York stage in the original productions of Floyd Collins,Titanic (musical),Blood Brothers,Zara Spook and Other Lures,Amour, Radio Gals,Anne Bogart's Marathon Dancing, and the original off-Broadway (Sullivan Street) production of The Fantasticks.

Bennett created the musical stage play, Ten Years Apart, as well as the play Badger Country, both with writing partner Sean McCourt.

Television

Bennett is the founder and President of the television and film production company, Silent Crow Arts, incorporated in 2006. Since then, he has served as Executive Producer and showrunner on a wide range of television specials, pilots and series for Discovery Channel, History Channel, Science Channel, National Geographic Channel, A&E, and other networks, most notably with the creation of the Deadliest Catch partner series, After The Catch, for Discovery Channel.

Matthew Bennett (politician)

Matthew Bennett (20 January 1862 – 16 January 1951) was an Australian politician.

He was born at Carngham to farmer Joseph Bennett and Elizabeth Ann Temby. He became a farmer at Benjeroop, and on 31 October 1889 married Mary Simpson, with whom he had four daughters. Around 1906 he moved to Yannathan. An active member of the Country Party from its foundation, he served on Kooweerup Shire Council from 1925 to 1951 and was president from 1931 to 1932 and from 1941 to 1942. In 1929 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in a by-election for Gippsland West. He served until his retirement in 1950. Bennett died at Malvern in 1951.

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