Matt Gunn

Writer

Birthday December 29, 1972

Birth Sign Capricorn

Birthplace St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Age 51 years old

Nationality United States

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1972

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.

1990

He and his brothers all attended the Jesuit St. Louis University High School, where he graduated in 1990.

Their parents are Leota and James F. Gunn, who is a retired partner and corporate attorney with the law firm Thompson Coburn in St. Louis.

1997

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.

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.

2003

Gunn played "Dan McMahon" in the 2003 film, The Man Who Invented the Moon.