Matt Gunn
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April 22, 1972
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| Born | Matthew Gunn April 22, 1972 |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, actor |
| Spouse | Michelle Gunn (née Martin) |
| Children | Max Gunn, Grace Gunn |
| Relatives | James Gunn (brother) Sean Gunn (brother) Brian Gunn (brother) Mark Gunn (paternal cousin) |
Matthew Gunn (born April 22, 1972) is an American writer and actor from St. Louis, Missouri.
Gunn has four brothers — filmmaker James, actor Sean, screenwriter Brian, producer and former Executive Vice President of Artisan Entertainment Patrick — and a sister, Beth.[1][2][3]
[4] He and his brothers all attended the Jesuit St. Louis University High School, where he graduated in 1990.[4] Their parents are Leota[5] and James F. Gunn, who is a retired partner and corporate attorney with the law firm Thompson Coburn in St. Louis.[6]
Writing
In 1997, he wrote, produced, and starred in Man About Town, a 22-minute film that won the Sundance Film Festival's Short Filmmaking Award.[7] Gunn is a political and humor writer on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, for which he won a Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Comedy/Variety Talk Series and was nominated for an Emmy five times.[8] Gunn played "Dan McMahon" in the 2003 film, The Man Who Invented the Moon.