Matt Peters

Acting

Matt Peters

Born 1979-10-24 · Winchester, Virginia, USA

Peters was born in Richmond, Virginia and raised by his father John Peters, a United Methodist minister, and Julie Peters, a registered nurse. He has one older brother. He has been married to Susan Burke since 2013. They have one child together, born in 2016.Peters has been featured in many projects produced by Jenji Kohan including Orange is the New Black, Weeds, American Princess and Teenage Bounty Hunters. Peters was a production assistant on the Showtime series Weeds, before being cast for the role of Gayle in 2010. As a comedian, Peters has performed at venues and colleges all over the country. He was host of the long-running stand-up showcase Blam Blam Blam! based in Koreatown, Los Angeles for seven years.

Acting credits

Southbound poster
5.9

The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.

Southbound

2015

Winterset poster
8.0

In the town of Winterset, Iowa, three poor farmers recruit a City Slicker to help pull off a heist, stealing bags of cash from a wealthy ranch owner. The heist goes south and an evil man whom the bags belong to shows up to get them back.

Winterset

2025

Bobcat Moretti poster
5.8

An obese multiple sclerosis patient takes up his late Father's sport of boxing to overcome personal tragedy and find inner peace. "Bobcat Moretti" was filmed over the course of ten months, during COVID-19, allowing our lead actor to lose 154 pounds and embody the role.

Bobcat Moretti

2023

Motherhood poster
NR

A pregnant trans woman in the heat of active labor battles strict medical protocols and her family’s doubts to have a natural birth.

Motherhood

2026

Out of Office poster
6.2

A young woman discovers that keeping her job is related to helping her boss maintain his rapidly failing marriage.

Out of Office

2022

Modern/Love in 7 Short Films poster
7.3

Seven romantic comedies from the UK, Australia, and the US explore our modern romantic entanglements in all their hilarious, mundane, sexy and nerve-wracking ways. The festival hits from Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca star well-known actors like Natalie Dormer, Tom Burke, Yvette Nicole Brown and Rob Huebel among others.

Modern/Love in 7 Short Films

2019

The 4th poster
4.6

It's the Fourth of July in Los Angeles, and Jamie, a broke illustrator who is behind on his rent, tries to throw a cookout while his overbearing roommate is out of town, but everything seems to go wrong.

The 4th

2016

Margot Rourke & The Boys Club poster
NR

Before Lisa Lampanelli and Sarah Silverman shocked audiences with dirty jokes and raised questions of a woman's place in comedy, there was Mae West. And at the same time as Mae West, there was Margot Rourke, who nobody has heard of but who was responsible for the greatest dirty ditty of all time. This is her story — a short film about the first female fart comic.

Margot Rourke & The Boys Club

2013

Body at Brighton Rock poster
5.0

When an inexperienced park ranger finds a dead body under mysterious circumstances on a remote mountain trail, she must guard it overnight until authorities can arrive, forcing her to confront some of her deepest, darkest fears.

Body at Brighton Rock

2019

YOU NEED TO PROCESS THIS poster
NR

A married couple struggles to connect while discussing a sexual assault.

YOU NEED TO PROCESS THIS

2023

Pink Grapefruit poster
5.8

A young married couple brings two of their single friends out to Palm Springs for a long weekend. It does not go as planned.

Pink Grapefruit

2015