---
name: "Matthew Aldrich"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/matthew-aldrich"
fi1m_id: "matthew-aldrich"
imdb_id: "nm0017690"
tmdb_id: 74343
wikidata_id: "Q113414202"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "24 June 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-27T19:38:30.508709+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."
---

# Matthew Aldrich

## Identity

Matthew Aldrich

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/matthew-aldrich
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** matthew-aldrich
- **IMDb ID:** nm0017690
- **TMDB ID:** 74343
- **Wikidata ID:** Q113414202
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113414202, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0017690/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74343

Writer. Born 24 June 1979 in Mesa.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 24 June 1979, Mesa
- **Also known as:** Matt Aldrich
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 other
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113414202, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0017690/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74343

## Coming up

- *Dynamic Duo* (2028-06-29), Screenplay

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Coco*](https://film.one/film/coco.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Matthew Aldrich is a screenwriter. He is credited, sometimes as Matt Aldrich, on the Pixar film *Coco* (2017), for which he co-wrote the screenplay and original story with Adrian Molina. He also contributed story and additional screenplay material to *Lightyear* (2022).

His other credits include the screenplay for *Spinning Man* (2018) and writing *Cleaner* (2007). Aldrich joined the *Coco* project in 2012 and participated in research trips to Mexico. He has worked on stageplays and later contributed to Netflix's Narnia adaptations.

*Sources: imdb.com, awn.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Coco* (2017), Fi1m 84, Screenplay, Original Story — [page](https://film.one/film/coco.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Finding Dory* (2016), Fi1m 68, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/finding-dory.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Dynamic Duo* (2028), Screenplay
- *The Last House* (2026), Thanks — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-house.md)
- *Lightyear* (2022), Story, Additional Writing
- *Spinning Man* (2018), Screenplay
- *Coco* (2017), Screenplay, Original Story — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/coco.md)
- *Finding Dory* (2016), Thanks — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/finding-dory.md)
- *Cleaner* (2007), Writer
- *My Sweet Suicide* (1999), as Kevin Harrison
- *The Natural Order*, Writer, Original Story

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