---
name: "Peter Mattessi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-mattessi"
fi1m_id: "peter-mattessi"
tmdb_id: 1818129
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:30:36.023733+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."
---

# Peter Mattessi

## Identity

Peter Mattessi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-mattessi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-mattessi
- **TMDB ID:** 1818129
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1818129

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1818129

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

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

## Biography

Peter Mattessi is a television writer and producer. He began his career in Australia as a trainee storyliner on *Neighbours*, later contributing as a writer to that series and others including *Home and Away* and *The Heights*.

He moved to London in 2008, serving as script editor and later writer on *EastEnders* (with episodes from 2011 to 2022) and script producer on the spin-off *EastEnders: E20*. He also wrote for *Holby City*, including the episode “Rocket Man”, which won a Writers’ Guild of Great Britain award in 2018.

Mattessi has received multiple Australian Writers’ Guild awards for serial drama. In 2023 he was elected president of the Australian Writers’ Guild. He co-created the series *Return to Paradise*.

*Sources: imdb.com, eastenders.fandom.com, theagency.co.uk, awg.com.au.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *Return to Paradise* (2024), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *The Heights* (2019), series, Story
- *Holby City* (1999), series, Writer
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Writer, Script Editor — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

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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/peter-mattessi