Matthew Lawrence

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Actor • Singer

Birth Date: February 11, 1980

Age: 44 years old

Birth Place: Abington, Pennsylvania

Spouses: Cheryl Burke

Siblings: Joey Lawrence, Andrew Lawrence

One of the acting Lawrence brothers, Matthew (Matt) is four years younger than brother Joey, but as Joey slid into his 20s, Matt replaced him as one of the top teen idols in America. Coming across as shy, with a broad smile, thick eyebrows, and floppy hair, Lawrence, like older brother Joey, began in show business at an early age.

Along with youngest brother Andy, the trio were featured as siblings in the gentle sitcom "Brotherly Love" (NBC, 1995-96; The WB, 1996-97), Matthew was the not-yet-centered and somewhat high strung teen half-brother of Joey, who has mixed feelings when the older sibling decides to move in and help run the garage owned by their late father.

In 1999, Lawrence joined Robert Forster, Ashley Judd and his brother Andrew Lawrence for the family drama "Family Tree." Then in 2002, Lawrence portrayed a high school quarterback helplessly in love with a cheerleader (played by Rachel McAdams) who, is turned into a thirty year old man (played by Rob Schneider), in "The Hot Chick."

Lawrence was three years old when he first stepped in front of the cameras as the son of Sammi Jo (Heather Locklear) in "Dynasty" (ABC, 1983). Two years later, he was Mark Hudson's son on the short-lived sitcom "Sara" (NBC). In the final (1986-87) season of NBC's "Gimme a Break," he appeared as Joey's half-brother, both being raised by Nell Carter. He was again motherless in "Walter and Emily" (NBC, 1991) as a youth being raised by his grandparents (Cloris Leachman and Brian Keith).

Lawrence occasionally played his big brother as a youth in flashback episodes of NBC's "Blossom" during that series' 1991-95 run, but he picked up his own teen following as the star of the syndicated "SuperHuman Samurai Syber Squad" (1994-95). In the latter, he played Sam, the only person on earth who could stop megaviruses from taking over the world's computers.

Lawrence has also been in several spotlighted TV-movies, including the title role as the real-life burn victim in "David" (ABC, 1988), as John Ritter's son in "The Summer My Father Grew Up" (NBC, 1991), Along with his two brothers, he co-starred in the Western adventure pilot "Brothers of the Frontier" (NBC, 1996). Lawrence made his film debut as Little Neal--with Steve Martin as Big Neal--in John Hughes' "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" (1987).

He is probably best recalled, though, as the son of Robin Williams and Sally Field in "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993).

Credits

The Contract

Actor
Movie
2024

Marry Christmas

Actor
Austin Wright
Movie
2024

My Best Friend the Baby Snatcher

Actor
Richie
Movie
2023

Access Daily With Mario & Kit

Guest
Show
2022

Double Threat

Actor
Jimmy
Movie
2022

The Dead of Night

Actor
Deputy Luke Walker
Movie
2021

A Deadly Deed

Actor
William Everstone
Movie
2021

A Deadly Deed

Executive Producer
Movie
2021

Mistletoe Mixup

Actor
Austin
Movie
2021

The Office Mix-Up

Actor
Greg
Movie
2020

Granny's Home

Actor
Brad Kirkpatrick
Movie
2019

Better Than Love

Actor
Davies
Movie
2019

Desperate Waters

Actor
Mike
Movie
2019

Hollywood DarlingsStream

Guest Star
Series
2017

The Psycho She Met Online

Actor
Andrew Hexley
Movie
2017

Hollywood Medium With Tyler HenryStream

Guest Star
Reality
2016

Evol

Actor
Ben Dawson
Movie
2016

Girl Meets WorldStream

Guest Star
Jack Hunter
Series
2014

The Dog Who Saved Easter

Actor
Will
Movie
2014

My Santa

Actor
Chris
Movie
2013

Of Silence

Actor
Brian
Movie
2012

Fort McCoy

Actor
Dan Griffin
Movie
2011

The TalkStream

Guest
Talk
2010

Hawaii Five-0Stream

Guest Star
Josh Baker
Series
2010

Melissa & JoeyStream

Guest Star
Series
2010

Worst Cooks in AmericaStream

Contestant
Reality
2010

Creature of Darkness

Actor
Lance
Movie
2009

The Comebacks

Actor
Lance Truman
Movie
2007

CSI: MiamiStream

Guest Star
Series
2002

The Hot ChickStream

Actor
Billy
Movie
2002
21%

Cheats

Actor
Victor Barone
Movie
2002

Jumping Ship

Actor
Jake Hunter
Movie
2001

Family Tree

Actor
Mark
Movie
2000

H-E-Double Hockey Sticks!

Actor
Dave Heinrich
Movie
1999

All I Wanna Do

Actor
Dennis
Movie
1998

Rusty: A Dog's Tale

Voice
Rusty
Movie
1998

Boltneck

Actor
Frank Stein
Movie
1998

Angels in the Endzone

Actor
Jesse Harper
Movie
1997

Brothers of the Frontier

Actor
Aaron Frye
Movie
1996

Brotherly Love

Actor
Matt Roman
Series
1995
86%

Cleghorne!

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Show
1995

Bringing Up Jack

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Show
1995

Boy Meets WorldStream

Actor
Jack Newman
Series
1993

Mrs. DoubtfireStream

Actor
Christopher 'Chris' Hillard
Movie
1993
70%

With a Vengeance

Actor
Phillip Barcetti
Movie
1992

Drexell's Class

Actor
Walker
Show
1991

Drexell's Class

Guest Star
Show
1991

The Summer My Father Grew Up

Actor
Timmy
Movie
1991

Daddy

Actor
Sam Watson
Movie
1991

Tales From the Darkside: The Movie

Actor
Timmy (wraparound story)
Movie
1990

Joshua's Heart

Actor
Joshua
Movie
1990

Kiki's Delivery Service

Voice
Tombo
Movie
1989

Pulse

Actor
Stevie
Movie
1988

Pulso

Actor
Movie
1988

Sara

Actor
Jesse Webber
Series
1985

Gimme a Break!

Actor
Series
1981

Entertainment Tonight

Guest
News
1981

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