I grew up east of Portland Oregon on a farm riding dirkbikes, snowboarding Mt Hood and wakeboarding the Columbia River. Did a few plays when I was younger but was never in the theatre crew ya' know. My friends and I would just film each other doing crazy stunts and stuff which in turn transformed into our own short films for fun. I attended a seminar/stunt school as I was graduating from high school, learned a lot about stunts for film and filmaking in general. They Hucked us from three stories up into airbags, down flights of stairs, through windows, and out of moving cars. We also learned and performed a lot of fight sequences for camera. FUN STUFF... I was hooked. From there I started doing extra work on local films in the Portland area. My first big gig was a stunt guy playing football in an International Levis commercial. Bonus was they made me the actor/Model as well. Two birds with one stone! My career was jump started. I immediately dropped out of college, did the commercial, and modeled for a short time in Germany for Levis. Then it was off to Hollywood where I worked as an actor and found my love for film acting while studying with Joe Palese who still currently teaches in LA. Since then I have moved back to Portland, while staying connected to LA, and am currently working on locally shot films to boost my reel and get some good gritty characters under my belt. I have had the honor of working with a few of the greats over the years such as:

Robert DeNiro, Cuba Gooding Jr., Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Susan Ruttan, etc...

I love working in film, it is one of the most challenging pursuits in my life, yet very rewarding at the same time...

"Dream the Dream, Live the Life..." MATT DOTSON