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

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. As Head of Coaching for Vancouver's

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Shakespeare Festival, she has coached over 40 productions since 2007. As a voice and speech trainer, she works with academics at the

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at the

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, 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 ''

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'', and ''

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''. Matthews has voiced several

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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

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Saturday morning series ''

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

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Filmography

Film

Television

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