
Acting
Matt Cooke
Acting
Biography
Matt Cooke is a Canadian actor who began his career in the late 1980s. He has been active for over three decades, appearing in both Canadian and American productions, and is best known for his recurring role as Dan Hartfield on the CBC series Heartland (2008–2018) and his roles in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and RoboCop (2014). He also had a role in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). His notable film and television credits include Canadian Bacon (1995, dir. Steve Martin, with Martin and Evan Rachel Wood), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001, dir. Chris Columbus, with Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson), Hell on Wheels (2011, with Anson Mount), Suits (2011, with Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams), RoboCop (2014, dir. José Padilha, with Joel Kinnaman), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014, dir. Bryan Singer, with Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman), Fargo (2014, with Billy Bob Thornton and Kirsten Dunst), and Girl in the Box (2016, with Maggie Q and Luke Evans).
Feature Films (27)

An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
Cypher

Rexxx, Hollywood's top canine star, gets lost and is adopted into a shabby firehouse. He teams up with a young kid to get the station back on its feet.
Firehouse Dog

Despite allegations of child sexual abuse against Jody's ex-husband Marcus, the court orders joint custody of their daughter Samantha. Jody faces a choice of turning Samantha over to Marcus or taking her on the run and risk kidnapping charges. Pursued by both the FBI and a private detective, Jody and Samantha are hunted, fleeing from town to town with the help of an underground network set up to help women and children escape from abuse. Based on a true story.
Her Desperate Choice

A case of mistaken identity forces a Federal agent and a dental supply salesman to team up as they speed through the streets of Detroit to pull off a sting operation and solve the murder of the agent's former partner.
The Man

While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in rounding them into shape for an important competition. During their training, they stumble upon a group of subversive air force officers who are dealing in toxic waste as a sideline.
Iron Eagle on the Attack

The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
Canadian Bacon

Haunted by her sister's suspicious death, Kelly Holden enlists the help of murder-mystery novelist Graydon Jennings to help solve the crime. Together they discover that Kelly's sibling was living quite the double life -- sleeping with a congressman and fending off a scorned ex-lover! As this salacious story unfolds, Kelly discovers that truth isn't just stranger than fiction -- it can be more evil too!
Thrill of the Kill

When Eve receives a late-night call that her husband, Ted, has been in a terrible accident, she rushes to the hospital. To Eve's surprise, she comes face to face with The Other Woman. Crushed by her beloved's rampant infidelities, Eve gives "until death do us part" a chilling new meaning. Chaining Ted to the floor of their hidden basement speakeasy is the only way to keep her true love truly faithful. But when charming Detective Grant enters the scene, the question is, who will ultimately get hitched?
Hitched

Based on the real story of Clara Harris, the Houston, Texas dentist who made headlines in July 2002 when she killed her adulterous husband by repeatedly running over him with her car.
Suburban Madness

During the reign of the Vikings, a man from another world crash-lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator. The man must fuse his advanced technology with the weaponry of the vikings to fight the monster.
Outlander

In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.
RoboCop

Henry Adler, an outwardly normal banker, yearns to make it in show business and still answers to his overbearing father. When Henry is hired to act in a television police drama, he realizes his big break has arrived and decides to do whatever it takes to get into the role — even if that means donning his police costume in public during off hours. It isn't long, however, before Henry begins to take the law into his own hands as his violent side chillingly emerges.
I Love a Man in Uniform
Television & Series (15)

Veritas: The Quest is a television program that aired in 2003. It follows a rebellious but intelligent teenager, Nikko Zond, discovering that his father Solomon's profession is much more mystical and adventurous than he previously thought. Solomon and his team search for the answers to some of the world's mysteries, a quest began because of the mysterious disappearance of Nikko's mother during an archaeological dig. Thus begins Nikko's fantastical journey into an Indiana Jones-style adventure with his father and his colleagues in trying to follow in his mother's footsteps to discover what strange secrets she was uncovering.
Veritas: The Quest

The origin story of younger, hungrier, former Green Beret Bryan Mills as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.
Taken

Jess Mastriani was a normal person who only wanted to take over her parents' restaurant in Indiana. But that changed when she was hit by lightning. After that she began seeing visions of missing people. Jess decides to use her newfound ability to be a consultant to the FBI, helping locate missing individuals. Eventually, she is hired by the bureau full-time and trained to become an agent, but her by-the-book nature sometimes clashes with the personality of her partner. Jess and her colleagues work out of the FBI's Washington, D.C., office.
Missing

CBC’s first prime time soap opera follows the intertwined lives of four families in Toronto’s Riverdale community.








