Matt Healy

Matt Healy
Born	David James Healy 16 November 1970 Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Other names	Matt Healy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997 – present

Matt Healy (born David James Healy 16 November 1970) is a Scottish actor, who grew up in Oldham, Lancashire. He is best known for his role as Matthew King in the television soap series Emmerdale.

When he was three years old his family moved from Paisley to Oldham, Lancashire, where he was brought up. He attended Oldham College and the University of Salford. After leaving college he travelled abroad until deciding to take up acting as a full-time career, but admits that he spent a lot of time "resting" and taking on manual jobs between finding roles. When he started acting he used the stage name Matt Healy because there was already an actor named David Healy. In 1997, he toured in the stage play Girls' Night Out, playing a gay stripper.

He briefly played the part of a policeman in Coronation Street. He has also been in The Bill, Playing the Field and Holby City. He was almost considering giving up acting when, in 2004, he auditioned for the role of devious Matthew King on Emmerdale.

In March 2017 he appeared in an episode of the BBC daytime drama Doctors, titled "Surveillance".

He made his first Emmerdale appearance on 4 March 2004, as the character Matthew King. He was in the soap for nearly five years and made his last screen appearance on 16 December 2008, when the character was killed on his wedding day.

Between March and April 2009, he appeared as Clyde in The Murder Game at the King's Head Theatre, Islington.

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