- Born
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- In 2000, while shooting an episode of The Fugitive in Seattle, Director James Frawley told Matt he thought he would be very busy if he went to LA.. Jump to 2005, at age 47, he moved to L.A. with 7 credits to his name and in 2023 has 133. So, Mr. Frawley was correct. Some recent work include: Films, Violent Ends and Poetic License, recurring on Kingdom Business on BET and The Game on Paramount +, The feature Devotion with Glen Powell and Jonathan Majors, and Agent Game with Mel Gibson. You may remember him as Sheriff White in The Judge. He has made 20 skit appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and 11 on Conan. Before all this, he started out doing radio in Buffalo, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle. He took a break from radio and spent eleven years on the road doing stand-up. Voice over work is another passion. Recent clients include Coors Banquet, Dodge Ram, California Milk, Discover Card and several NASCAR promos. He narrated two seasons of Murder Among Friends for Investigation Discovery Channel. His promo work includes The Daytona 500, The Voice and Nascar Race Hub. He has Source Connect so he can voice anything from his home studio.
- IMDb mini biography by: Matt Riedy
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Sexual orientationStraight
- Was a competitive body builder while living in Seattle. Competing in the 1998 Weider Washington NPC and getting 4th. In 2001 he competed in The NPC Weider Washington Ironman Championships show for men over 40-50 and won 1st place. That show earned him a second place finish in 2002. He also got a 2nd place in the 2001 NPC Max Muscle Washington State Championships and a 2nd place in the same competition in 2003. His last show was the 2003 Emerald Cup in Seattle where the men over 40 category had 20 contestants both natural and not natural. He got 11th place. In 2005 he tore a calf muscle jumping out of a sand trap while playing golf on a very cold Seattle day and that was it.
- His name appears on the Bally's marquee in the film Honeymoon in Vegas starring James Caan, Nicolas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker. He was the comic opening the show for headliner Jeff Dunham.
- Once got to play in the LAPD Celebrity Golf Tournament when Ron Pearlman had to drop out. A few years later while working on Sons of Anarchy he thanked Pearlman for having to drop out and for giving him the opportunity to play. Pearlman said "How'd you finish?" Riedy said, he got 2nd place...Pearlman's response was..."I would have won!".
- When The Fugitive with Tim Daly was filming in Seattle, director James Frawley hired him to play a sheriff. During the shoot, Frawley asked him if he worked in Los Angeles at all. Frawley went on to say he thought Riedy would be very busy if he did. A couple of years later after much ruminating, Riedy did make the move and has been pretty busy since. He ran into Frawley when the director was casting Grey's Anatomy in the same office where Riedy was auditioning for Private Practice. They caught up, Riedy thanked him for the inspiration and they parted ways. The very next week Riedy walked into a room to audition for Dirty Sexy Money and there was Frawley in the director's chair. He gave Riedy the job.
- Born and raised in Buffalo, New York.
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