Biography
Tim Matthews is an English actor born on 4 April 1976 in Oxfordshire. He began his career on stage in Fuente Ovejuna at the National Theatre in London, directed by Declan Donnellan, and made his first television appearance in a supporting role in the première episode of Five Children and It in 1991.
Matthews is known for his role as Alex M. Penkala Jr. in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and as Liam McGuire in the BBC soap opera Doctors (2001–2007). He appeared as Shane in the film London to Brighton (2006) and has credits in The Thin Blue Line (1995), Hustle (2004) and Wire in the Blood (2002). He received a nomination for a British Soap Opera Award for Best Villain in 2003 for his work on Doctors.
He has also appeared in Hiroshima (2005) as Major Thomas Ferebee and The Lost Battalion (2001). Matthews works as a drama and speech tutor around Oxford.
