Matthew Ferguson

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

Life and accomplishments

Matthew Ferguson was born on the Toronto Islands . He lived for some time on these islands off the city of Toronto with about 700 inhabitants. At the age of five he demonstrated in a human chain to stop a government project that wanted to relocate the population and build a park. Finally, in 1992, the residents were able to sign a lease for 99 years. Partly from this resistance movement, the Shadowland theater group emerged in 1983 , which later became the Swizzle Stick Theater of the Stilt Walkers . Ferguson is an active member and has appeared in street theater . He learned to walk on stilts and demonstrated this skill for years at the Caribana , the Toronto Carnival. Other hobbies include sports, hockey, mountaineering, and mimicking accents.

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

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

A medium-sized supporting role was Ferguson in love and other cruelties (1993) by director Denys Arcand and was nominated for a Genie Award for best supporting actor in 1994. He received two further nominations for this Canadian award in 1996 for Best Actor for Under Black Sun (1995) and for Lilies - Theater of Passion (1996). In the film The English Patient (1996) by director Anthony Minghella , which won nine Academy Awards , Ferguson can be seen in a small role as a wounded soldier.

Matthew Ferguson is best known as the computer genius Seymour Birkoff in the dramatic agent 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 that television series. In the horror thriller Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) he portrayed a medium-sized supporting role and in some scenes in the drama Owning Mahowny (2003) a smaller supporting role.

Ferguson produced plays in Toronto. He is a screenwriter and actor in the film Run Bobby Run about Bobby Kennedy .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1992: Simons Sehnsucht ( On My Own )
  • 1992: Street Legal (episodes 7.4 Persistence of Vision and 7.7 Never Say Die )
  • 1993: Love and Human Remains ( Love and Human Remains )
  • 1993: Harter Mann in Uniform ( I Love a Man in Uniform )
  • 1994: The Club
  • 1994: Hell of a Marriage ( Life with Billy )
  • 1994: Mothers and Daughters ( Lives of Girls & Women )
  • 1994: "Spenser" death of a sensational reporter ( Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes )
  • 1995: Billy Madison - A mess to fall in love with
  • 1995: Under the black sun ( Eclipse )
  • 1995: Harrison Bergeron - IQ Runner or IQ Runner - Revolt of the Subhumans ( Harrison Bergeron )
  • 1995: War at Sea: The Black Pit
  • 1996: confession with deadly consequences ( The Deliverance of Elaine )
  • 1996: Lilies - Theater of Passion ( Lilies - Les feluettes )
  • 1996: The English Patient ( The English Patient )
  • 1996: PSI Factor (episode 1.8 The Fugitive / Two Lost Old Men or The Transient / The Two Lost Old Men )
  • 1997: Uncut
  • 1997–2001: Nikita ( La Femme Nikita ) (TV series)
  • 1998: The Wall - Farewell to heroism
  • 1998: Anna und der Geist ( Giving Up the Ghost )
  • 2001: I Shout Love
  • 2001: Mission Earth (episode 5.7 Guilty Conscience )
  • 2002: An American in Canada (TV series)
  • 2002: Cube 2: Hypercube
  • 2002: Three and a Half
  • 2003: Owning Mahowny
  • 2004: Snakes & Ladders (TV series)
  • 2005: Hockey: A People's History (episode A Simple Game )
  • 2005: Odd Job Jack (dubbing voice, 8 episodes: 1.13, 2.01, 2.10, 2.11, 3.01, 3.02, 3.12, 3.13)
  • 2010: Murdoch Mysteries (episode Me, Myself and Murdoch )
  • 2010: Unnatural History (episode Curse of the Rolling Stone )

literature

  • Christopher Heyn : Inside Section One: Creating and Producing TV's La Femme Nikita , Los Angeles: Persistence of Vision Press, September 2006, English, ISBN 0-9787625-0-9 . Pages 94 through 99 are about his role and Matthew Ferguson being interviewed.

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personal data
SURNAME Ferguson, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actor
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd April 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto Islands , Ontario , Canada