Biography

Matthew Sauvé is an international multi-award winning leading actor from Toronto, Canada. He has appeared in over forty film and television productions. He is best known for his lead role performance as 'Travis' in the dramatic short film "One Night Stand". The film for which Matthew is also the executive producer of has received critical acclaim around the world, and also in Canada winning 2nd place at the 2019 CTV 'Best in Shorts' national competition. Matthew received the jury prize of "Best Actor" at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival in June of 2017, and the annual Golden Fox award for "Best Actor of the year" in Calcutta, India in December of 2017. In July of 2018 he was awarded "Best Lead Actor" at the Madrid International Film Festival, and again in August 2018 was awarded "Best Lead Actor" at the Amsterdam International Filmmakers Festival of World Cinema. In September 2018 Matthew was awarded the jury prize of "Best World Actor" at the Austin Revolution Film Festival. In February 2019 he won "Best Lead Actor" at the North Europe International Film Festival in London, England , and again winning "Best Lead Actor" at the South Europe International Film Festival in Valencia, Spain in May 2019. Matthew has also been nominated for "Best Lead Actor" at many International Film Festivals throughout Europe and North America. In August of 2019 Matthew won 2 Honorable Mention's at the Top Shorts Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Awards as well as "Best Actor in an Indie Film" at the Festigious International Film Festival in LA , The Actors Awards in LA, and the New York Film Awards. He also won "Best Lead Actor" at the West Europe International Film Festival, nominated in the same category as Hollywood veteran Vincent D'Onfrio for the second time in 2019. Matthew also won "Best Actor" at the London Independent Film Awards in the UK, "Best Lead Acting" at the European Cinematography Awards in the Netherlands, and won the "Award of Merit: Special Mention" at The Best Shorts Film Festival in September 2019. In October 2019 Matthew won "Best Actor" at the Royal Wolf Film Awards, The Global Film Festival Awards in Los Angeles, The Oniros Film Awards in Italy, the Florence Film Awards in Italy, the South Film and Arts Academy in Chile, and The FilmCon Awards. Matthew also won 2 additional "Best Lead Actor" awards in India during 2019. You can see him as the lead actor in Simple Plan's 'Singing in the Rain' music video which climbed the U.S. charts on Ryan Seacrest's weekly Top 40, and the U.S. 'Billboard Hot 100'.

Matthew is also known for his stand up comedy performances, having opened for all 5 of Tim Meadow's "SNL", "Mean Girls" 2012 Canadian shows. Dedicated to his craft and the development of young actors, he regularly teaches kids acting workshops in Toronto.