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Alison Matthews
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Notable credit(s) | Gundam SEED asEzalia Joule Inuyasha asToran |
| Website | alisonmatthews |
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 ArtsinAlberta. 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 JouleinGundam 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.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 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 |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 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 |
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