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Alison Matthews
Born
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationActress
Notable credit(s)Gundam SEED
as Ezalia Joule
Inuyasha
as Toran
Websitealisonmatthews.com

Alison Matthews is a Canadian actor, voice artist, and coach. A founding faculty member at the Arts Club Actor's Intensive Training Program, she was also a faculty member for five years with the Citadel Banff Professional Theatre Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta. As Head of Coaching for Vancouver's Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, she has coached over 40 productions since 2007. As a voice and speech trainer, she works with academics at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia, with women at the Vancouver Chapter of The Shoe Project, and with community leaders at Leadership Vancouver Island. For the past twenty years she has adjudicator for competitive speech festivals across Western Canada.

Matthews has numerous film and television credits, including roles on The X-Files and Battlestar Galactica, as well as featured roles in films such as Disney's Snow Dogs, and Final Destination 2. Matthews has voiced several anime roles, most notably Ezalia Joule in Gundam SEED, as well as the narrator in Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny. She also co-starred in NBC Saturday morning series Just Deal.

Matthews holds a M.F.A. in Theatre from the University of British Columbia, and an Associate Diploma in Drama & Speech from Trinity College London.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1999 The Falling Stellina
2002 Snow Dogs TV Reporter
2003 Final Destination 2 Physician
2007 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man Motoko Kusanagi[1] Voice, Direct-to-video
2007 Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG – Individual Eleven Motoko Kusanagi[1] Voice, Direct-to-video
2008 Stargate: Continuum Interviewer Direct-to-video
2008 Sanguine Narrator Voice, Short film

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1995 A Child Missing Customer Television film
1996 The Outer Limits Karen Dunn Episode: "Worlds Apart"
1996 Poltergeist: The Legacy Miss McHugh / Kat's Teacher Episode: "The Reckoning"
1997 Millennium Sandy Geiger Episode: "Walkabout"
1997 The X-Files Doctor Episode: "Synchrony"
1998 Welcome to Paradox Agent Episode: "The Extra"
1998 Mercy Point Surgeon Reese Episode: "Opposing Views"
1999 First Wave Maya Episode: "The Decision"
1999–2000 Beggars and Choosers Nancy Ingram 4 episodes
2000 Seven Days CZN Reporter Episode: "Brother, Can You Spare a Bomb?"
2000 Stargate SG-1 Brenna Episode: "Beneath the Surface"
2000–2002 Just Deal Emily Gordon 23 episodes
2000 The Immortal Agent Audrey Welles Episode: "Flight 666"
2001 The Division Trudy Martin Episode: "Pilot"
2001 Night Visions Dr. Martha Tyler Episode: "After Life"
2001 Da Vinci's Inquest Arianna Wells' Daughter Episode: "Oppenheimer Park"
2001–2002 Project ARMS Queen of Hearts 3 episodes
2002, 2004 The Chris Isaak Show Lisa Pettigrew, Shana 2 episodes
2002 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction Segment: Writer's Agent
2002 Dark Angel Female Newscaster Episode: "Freak Nation"
2002 Taken News Reporter Episode: "John"
2003 Ann Rule Presents: The Stranger Beside Me Beverly Neal Television film
2004 Tru Calling Majorie Episode: "Closure"
2004 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Ezalia Joule, Narrator (voices)[1] 50 episodes
2004 Galaxy Angel Forte Stollen (voice)[1] 130 episodes; 5 seasons
2004 10.5 Donna, Press Secretary 2 episodes
2004 Inuyasha Koran (voice) 3 episodes
2004 Life as We Known It Mrs. Thrope Episode: "Natural Disasters"
2005, 2007 The L Word Associate Producer, Betty 2 episodes
2006 A Little Thing Called Murder Regina Laughny Television film
2006 .hack//Roots Bordeaux (voice)[1]
2007 Dragon Boys Cat. Gail Dorosh 2 episodes
2007 Supernatural Reporter Episode: "Nightshifter"
2007 Battlestar Galactica Karen Fallbrook 3 episodes
2007 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Narrator (voice) 5 episodes
2009 Defying Gravity Reporter Episode: "Eve Ate the Apple"
2014 Gracepoint Desk Sergeant 6 episodes
2016 Bates Motel Doctor Episode: "Norman"
2017 The Arrangement Producer Episode: "The Leak"
2017 iZombie Vicky Ernst Episode: "Wag the Tongue Slowly"
2017 Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce Linda Episode: "Rule #930: Plan for New Plans"
2017 All of My Heart: Inn Love Store Owner Television film
2019 The Twilight Zone News Commentator (Iowa) Episode: "The Wunderkind"
2020 Lego Jurassic World: Double Trouble OOPSI, Line Jumper (voices)[1] Episode: "Sibling Rivalry"
2020 Love at the Sunset Terrace Ashley Television film
2020 Christmas She Wrote Woman Television film
2021 Batwoman Doctor Episode: "Do Not Resuscitate"
2023 Guiding Emily Doris Television film

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Alison Matthews (visual voices guide)". behindthevoiceactors.com. Retrieved March 25, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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