Matt Okine
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Multi-talented actor, writer & presenter Matt Okine is one of Australia's favourite award winning
comedians, having spent over 15 years appearing on screens and stages around Australia and the
world.
Matt spent 3 years co-hosting Triple J radio's hugely successful Breakfast Show before hanging up
his headphones to go into production on the television adaption of his award-winning semi-autobiographical stand up show The Other Guy for Australian SVOD service, STAN. Matt co-wrote
and starred in the show which aired in 2017 and later that year earned him an AACTA nomination
for Subscription TV Best New Talent. In 2019, Matt released the second season of The Other Guy
which will be seen on STAN and Hulu.
Okine has won several awards including the ARIA Award for Best Comedy Release, The Melbourne
Comedy Festival's Director's Choice Award, and the Best Newcomer Award at the Melbourne
International Comedy Festival (which he shared with Ronny Chieng), as well as being nominated for
Best Comedy Performer at the Helpmann Awards.
On screen, Matt has appeared in several shows including H2O: Just Add Water, SBS's Legally Brown,
Ch 7's Orange Is The New Brown and Ch 9's Doctor Doctor. He's appeared in films See No Evil,
Aquamarine, most recently in Paramount's 'Dora and the Lost City of Gold', and the upcoming ABC
production, Stateless. He is also the host of the ABC cooking show, Shortcuts to Glory.
Matt's debut novel Being Black N Chicken & Chips has just been published by Hachette Australia.
This heart warming coming of age novel is based on his 2012 live show which earnt him his Best
Newcomer Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and also a Best Newcomer
Nomination at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
A film adaptation of his novel, Being Black N Chicken & Chips with Wooden Horse and the
Oscar-nominated production team at Aquarius Films is in development
