Matilda Ridgway
Acting
Biography
Matilda is an award-winning actor, theatre maker and arts educator. For the Ensemble Theatre she has performed in Proof, Seminar, My Wonderful Day, Brooklyn Boy and Ruby Sunrise. Her other theatre credits include This is Mine (Corinthian Food Store), Jasper Jones (Belvoir), Hamlet, Henry 4 and The Players (Bell Shakespeare) Crucible, Midsummer Nights Dream, A Doll’s House and Much Ado About Nothing (Sport for Jove), The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Kayak, Cock and Sprout (Old Fitzroy Theatre) Platonov and Sweet Nothings (ATYP). Her film and television credits include, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Jackie, Hiding (ABC), 1919 (ABC) the Cannes Palm D’Or nominee The Guests and the independent feature films Marley, Someone and 2010. Matilda trained at the Ensemble Studios, Atlantic Theatre Company NYC, SITI Company NYC and L’Ecole Phillippe Gaulier Paris.
Known For
An unexpected pregnancy complicates the lives of two families. The series centers around Oly, an ambitious and high-achieving teenage girl who has a surprise baby.
Bump
A woman experiences a medical miracle, after which she has only a few days to bring together her estranged children, save the family's wallpaper business and rekindle an old flame.
June Again
A woman and her baby have just moved into a new home. After she calls her mother, guests start to come up the stairs: isn’t this where the housewarming is? When she hesitantly lets them in, it turns out to be the beginning of a nightmare.
The Guests
Australian documentarian Emily and her journalist husband Danny are reeling from an allegation of abuse their 4-year-old daughter Natasha has made against a local politician's 9-year-old son, Ethan. Ethan’s parents, Joel and Bek, arrive unannounced at Emily and Danny's house, intent on convincing the couple that Natasha's allegation is a fabrication. Accusations, arguments, and the ultimate search for leverage turn their civil conversation into a vicious confrontation.
Disclosure
A working theatre actor questions her calling when she plays Lady Macduff in an increasingly violent production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth", with an internationally celebrated auteur director.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Nicholas Cutler is a smart yet self-destructive, once famous novelist who is stuck teaching English to iPhone-addicted teenagers at a working class high school. After writing a trashy zombie story he recaptures the interest of publishers who are willing to give him a second chance as long as he can prove he has cleaned up his act. However, what could have been the best week of his life spirals into chaos and he's forced to finally put others ahead of his selfish dreams.