Matt Winston

Biography

Matt Winston (born February 3, 1970, Los Angeles) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer, son of Academy Award-winning effects artist Stan Winston, whose studio he grew up in and where he began puppeteering on Aliens and Jurassic Park before studying at Yale and moving into acting. He co-wrote Thanks for Sharing (2012), co-founded the Stan Winston School of Character Arts, and has been married to actress Amy Smallman since 1998. On screen he is best known as Temporal Agent Daniels across all four seasons of Star Trek: Enterprise, with film credits in Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) (Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) (Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett), Fight Club (1999) (Edward Norton, Brad Pitt), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) (Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law), About Schmidt (2002) (Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis), The Core (2003) (Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) (Steve Carell, Toni Collette), Zodiac (2007) (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr.), and Harbinger Down (2015) (Chris Hemsworth, Sam Worthington).