Matt Houlihan

Matt is an award winning actor born and raised in Camberwell, South London, home of Charlie Chaplin and Michael Caine. Matt is the son of Actor Andrew Faulds. Half Irish and Scottish, at home with people of all classes and varied cultural backgrounds, Matt's work carries diverse influences from his London experience. Matt is interested in people and loves to travel the world, to experience humanity and nature from every perspective. Considering adventure to be in his blood, he loves America, its lands and ethnicity's, and wishes to work with and entertain Americans of all creeds and colors. Matt enjoys providing an eccentric quality to the work he approaches, something simultaneously old-school and other worldly in his style. He excels in comedy and dark drama and has a penchant for the serious and the surreal. A character actor, Matt is influenced by Alec Guinness, Rowan Atkinson, Robin Williams, Michael Keaton and of course, Charlie Chaplin. Matt is an experienced actor, professional for over ten years. After receiving a bachelors in Drama and Sociology at Surrey University, Matt attended the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in Kensington, learning the highest standards of stagecraft in the UK, receiving a Diploma with a Distinction. Immediately on graduation, Matt entered repertory at The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, through a season of plays by George Bernard Shaw. These included a comedy role in 'Major Barbara' and starring as the title role in 'O'Flaherty VC', playing a skeptical Irish First World War soldier. Matt approached learning from the ground up, through various plays in London theatre, including lead roles in exciting high profile projects such as 'Housewives of the 1950's', playing a sleazy TV show host inspired by real-life presenter Huwie Green, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in 'Hungry Heart', written by the published and celebrated playwright Michael Ross, a Welsh raver in 'The Whisper Tree' with National Theatre Wales, an Argentine intelligence officer in the European Premier of 'That Strange Kind of Passion' at The Calder Bookshop Theatre and various roles including wizards and pirates at The Globe's Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and Sonnets with actor-director, Academy Award winner Mark Rylance. Matt is a follower of the work of film directors such as Martin Scorsese, Paul Greengrass, Hitchcock and Kubrick. He has found the practical process of learning acting for screen to be an exciting challenge. In future, Matt intends to develop comedy and tragedy for a mass audience. His upcoming features include successful web series' 'TV Footballers' and 'A Lesson Learnt'. Matt would someday love to play the manically contrarian writer and broadcaster William F. Buckley, Jr.