Colin Matthews

Screenwriter

Vancouver, Canada

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About Colin

Originally from the UK, Colin is a Canadian-based writer, actor, and art department member. He has over thirty years of production experience with over 300 hours of produced film and television. He has worked Internationally on big-budget studio features and high-end television series in the U.K. Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.A.

Over the years he has been fortunate enough to work with a number of award-winning directors including James Cameron, Brian de Palma, John Landis, Jon Amiel, Frank Oz, Alex Garland, and Sidney J. Furie.

Recent credits include –
• "Last Christmas" (Director: Paul Feig - Universal) - Feature
• "The Courier" aka "Ironbark" (Director: Dominic Cooke - Lionsgate) - Feature
• "Devs" (Director: Alex Garland - BBC/Hulu) - TV Series
• "Van Helsing" (Director: Jonathan Scarfe - Syfy) – TV Series
• "Harlots" (ITV/Hulu) - TV Series
(Complete list of credits available on request)

In addition, Colin has worked for a large number of film and television companies including; Syfy, Hulu, Fox, Universal, MGM, Disney, Paramount, Sony, Columbia, New Line, Lionsgate, Viacom, Imagine, BBC, ITV, ABC, NBC, CBS, USA Network and Showtime.

He is also an accomplished improviser and former member of the award-winning Vancouver Theatresports Improv. League. He has also performed in countless shows with his own improv troupe, the Nervous Sheep. As an actor, he has performed in television series and feature films as well as a large number of theatre productions.

Gender:
Male

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Those Who Hide War ⋄ Drama When a ragtag squad of French Foreign Legionnaires stumble across an illegal gold mining camp deep in the French Guianan jungle, it'll take everything they’ve got to survive the harsh environment and combat the brutal guerrilla warriors that call this primeval rainforest home.
Gloria Horror ⋄ Comedy Gloria is a supernatural comedy/horror set in Vancouver, Canada in the late 1980s. It's about a "cougar" named Gloria who's haunted by her white trash past and can transform into a real-life cougar that might just rip your heart out if you get on her bad side.
Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants Historical ⋄ Drama Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants is an hour-long, female-led, period drama set in England during the roaring 1920s that shows gangland London as we’ve never seen it before. Although fictional, it’s inspired by actual people and events and examines the rags to riches exploits of an all-female criminal gang that rose out of the slums of the Elephant and Castle area of South London.
Cockney Rebel Drama ⋄ Crime Cockney Rebel is a gritty coming-of-age / crime-drama centered around seventeen-year-old aspiring actor Tommy, who dreams of escaping the London council estate where he lives and the toxic masculinity surrounding him. We follow Tommy on his brutal journey from London's criminal underbelly to the glamorous façade of Hollywood as he flees from murderous gangsters to stay with his alcohol and drug-addicted grandfather, a former punk singer, on the Sunset Strip.
In Through The Out Door Fantasy ⋄ Adventure The extraordinary adventures of a very ordinary man. Joe Midway enters an old, dusty, atmospheric costume shop and gets transported into a world of treasure-hunting pirates and Nazis as he sets off on a wild, time-traveling ride through jungles, tropical islands, and the deserts of Outer Mongolia.

Credits

Devs (2020)
TV Mini Art department
The Courier (2020)
Film Art department
Last Christmas (2019)
Film Art department
Harlots (2019)
TV Series Art department
Jerk (2019)
TV Series Art department
Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods - Final Cut (2009)
Video Art department
The 4400 (2006)
TV Series Art department
Jake 2.0 (2003)
TV Series Art department
The Dead Zone (2002 - 2003)
TV Series Art department
The Core (2003)
Film Art department
Extreme Ops (2002)
Film Art department
Silicon Follies (2001)
TV Movie Art department
Twice Upon a Christmas (2001)
TV Movie Art department
Night Visions (2001)
TV Series Art department
Beer Money (2001)
TV Movie Art department