---
name: "Matt Stern"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/matt-stern"
fi1m_id: "matt-stern"
imdb_id: "nm1340604"
tmdb_id: 109649
wikidata_id: "Q21518248"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 March 1971"
died: "26 November 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-09T19:31:28.637410+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Matt Stern

## Identity

Matt Stern

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/matt-stern
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** matt-stern
- **IMDb ID:** nm1340604
- **TMDB ID:** 109649
- **Wikidata ID:** Q21518248
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21518248, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1340604/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/109649

Actor. Born 13 March 1971 in Bloemfontein. Died 26 November 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 March 1971, Bloemfontein
- **Died:** 26 November 2025
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21518248, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1340604/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/109649

## Biography

Matt Stern was a South African actor born in Bloemfontein on 13 March 1971. He trained in musical theatre at Pretoria Technikon and began his career as a freelance singer and actor before appearing in numerous South African television series and films.

He is known for his roles as Hendrick Booyens in *Invictus* (2009) and as an MNU Mercenary in *District 9* (2009). Other credits include *Racing Stripes* (2005), *I Am All Girls* (2021) and recurring parts in series such as *Binnelanders* and *Huis Lelieveld*. Stern also worked as a singer and represented South Africa at the World Championships for the Performing Arts in 2000.

He died in Pretoria on 26 November 2025.

*Sources: imdb.com, esat.sun.ac.za, maroelamedia.co.za.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *District 9* (2009), Fi1m 81, as MNU Mercenary — [page](https://film.one/film/district-9.md)
- *Invictus* (2009), Fi1m 61, as Hendrick Booyens — [page](https://film.one/film/invictus.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Kersfees by Molly & Wors* (2024), Actor
- *Banana Air* (2024), series, as Sakkie
- *I Am All Girls* (2021), as Salim Khan's Lawyer
- *Inconceivable* (2020), series, as Foreman
- *Frank and Fearless* (2018), as Man on train
- *An Act of Defiance* (2017), as Court Clerk
- *Grzimek* (2015), series, as Peter Molloy
- *Ballade vir 'n Enkeling* (2015), as Captain Pietie
- *Donkerland* (2013), series, as Frederik de Witt
- *A Million Colours* (2011), as Joubert
- *Stoute Boudjies* (2010), as Os
- *Invictus* (2009), as Hendrick Booyens — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/invictus.md)
- *District 9* (2009), as MNU Mercenary — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/district-9.md)
- *Hond se Dinges* (2009), as Nardus
- *Vaatjie gets owned* (2008), as Lawyer
- *Begeertes* (2006), series, as Frederik du Preez
- *Binnelanders* (2005), series, as Fourie
- *Hart Van Staal* (2005), series, Actor
- *Racing Stripes* (2005), as Reporter
- *Plek van die Vleisvreters* (2004), series, as Ivan Steenkamp
- *Song Vir Katryn* (2003), series, as John

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/matt-stern