Matthew Wilkas Biography
Matthew Wilkas is a New York-based theater and film actor, dramatist, and reality TV personality. He is most known for his lead performance in the 2012 film Gayby.
How old is Matthew Wilkas? – Age
He is 45 years old as of 20 April 2024. He was born in 1978 in Maine, United States.
Matthew Wilkas Family – Education
He grew up in Camden, Maine, alongside his two sisters. When he was twelve, his father died. He eventually attended Boston University’s theatrical school since he received a student-aid package. He later went to Hartford, Connecticut, before relocating to New York.
Matthew Wilkas Partner
Matthew Wilkas is openly gay. From November 2015 to July 2019, Wilkas was in a relationship with freestyle skiing champion and Olympic athlete Gus Kenworthy. Wilkas kissed Kenworthy before his men’s slopestyle qualification run at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea; the kiss was broadcast live on television and was hailed as a watershed event in the visibility of LGBT+ athletes.
Matthew Wilkas Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $100,000.
Matthew Wilkas Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m).
Matthew Wilkas Career
Wilkas co-composed with American entertainer and dramatist Imprint Setlock named Expo Play, a parody about the universe of kid magnificence exhibitions. The play was created in July 2008 at the Berkshire Theater Celebration. furthermore, in 2012, he was in the stage creation Bug Man: Mood killer the Dim supplanting principal entertainer Matt Caplan. Wilkas has showed up in front of an audience in various demonstrations including Quietness! The Melodic, The Last Sunday in June, All over, The Pride and so forth.
He has showed up in the Williamstown Theater Celebration, the Huntington Theater Organization, the Berkshire Theater Celebration, the Rattlestick Writers Theater, and The Sundance Theater Establishment, under the course of Michael Greif, Anna D. Shapiro, Will Frears, Carolyn Cantor, Imprint Brokaw, Nicholas Martin, and Excursion Cullman. In 2019, Wilkas featured in Little Shop of Revulsions as Dr. Orin Scrivello at the Pasadena Playhouse.
His TV profession began in 2003 with a symbolic job in the television series Trust and Confidence followed by brief appearances in The New Twenty and Revolting Betty. After numerous little jobs on TV, in 2012, he had a lead job in the component film Gayby which appeared at the South by Southwest (SXSW) celebration. In the film, Matt a comic book shop laborer (played by Wilkas) and Jenn a yoga educator (played by Jenn Harris), closest companions from school, presently single and in their thirties, in concurrence with a settlement they had made in their childhood, choose to have a child (“gayby”) together, despite the fact that Jenn is straight and Matt is gay.
In 2012, Wilkas and Harris co-won the Honor for “Best Acting Group: Element” during the Ashland Free Film Celebration for their parts in Gayby. The film won various other celebration grants, named one of the main ten autonomous movies of 2012 by IndieWire, and designated for a Free Soul Grant. For his exhibition in the film, Wilkas was named one of Out magazine’s “Out100” and one of the Los Angeles Outfest Film Celebration’s “Five in Concentration”.
In 2014, Wilkas showed up in Undateable, an American TV sitcom that broadcasted on NBC where he was given a role as the person Brett, Justin Kearney’s gay companion (pilot as it were). He likewise showed up in various shorts including This Single girl Party Sucks and Masc As it were.
In 2017, he had a lead job in New York Is Dead, a series that he co-composed and created. As Felix, he co-stars with Gayby entertainer Jenn Harris. Likewise in 2017, he is showing up in a lead job as X in “Kid Culture: The Series”, a rambling spin-off of the first 2006 LGBT American dramatization film Kid Culture. A Kickstarter crusade was sent off for the creation. The series will likewise incorporate Darryl Stephens (as Andrew), Matthew Crawford (as Chayce), as well as Stephen Guarino and vocalist Steve Fabulous.
Matthew Wilkas Movies
2019 – Crystal Cliffside for Woke Vampires
2018 – Island Zero
2017 – The Mummy
2016 – Masc Only
2015 – You’re Killing Me
2015 – This Bachelorette Party Sucks
2014 – Top Five
2012 – Gayby
2011 – Boys on Film 7: Bad Romance
2010 – Gayby
2008 – The New Twenty
Matthew Wilkas TV Shows
2022–present – So Help Me Todd
2022 – And Just Like That…
2020 – AJ and the Queen
2019 – Bonding
2019 – Modern Family
2018–19 – Matt and Dan
2017 – Hiatus
2017 – New York Is Dead
2015, 2017 – EastSiders
2014 – Looking
2014 – Saint Francis
2008 – Ugly Betty
2003 – Hope & Faith
