Matthew Nichols

Matthew Nichols is a Wisconsin based actor/screenwriter who does a variety of independent and feature projects in Milwaukee and Chicago, as well as traveling to other regions for feature and pilot projects. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Matthew Nichols spent most of his childhood and teenage years pursuing professional baseball. After a successful athletic and academic career at the University of Wisconsin * Whitewater, Matthew went on to graduate with a Bachelors of Science Degree - Elementary Education. He went on to teach elementary education in the Milwaukee and Waukesha, Wisconsin communities for 20 years. Within Matthew's teaching career, was a love for acting, modeling, painting and writing. In 1994 he began his career as an actor and model in the Milwaukee and Chicago areas during his summers. Matthew has since retired from the field of teaching and is now a published author, devoting his time exclusively to his acting career, screen writing, independent film and painting. He has appeared in a variety of industrial videos as a spokesperson and host, as well as doing local and regional ads for Kohls, and national ad campaigns including Miller/Coors for Major League Baseball and the National Football League. Matthew continues to build a successful career appearing in a variety of independent films from a wide range of genres, including True Crimes with Aphrodite Jones (TV Series), Unusual Suspects (TV Series), Disappeared (TV Series), Serial Daters Anonymous staring Louise Linton, Sam Page and Scott Deckert, and the award winning short The Survivor. Matthew is also a Milwaukee based screenwriter and has written two feature screenplays, three shorts and an original series.