Brian Matthews (born 1953) is an American

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

, best known for acting in daytime

soap opera A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ...

s in the 1980s. Matthews and co-stars

Holly Hunter Holly Patricia Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. For her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 drama film '' The Piano'', Hunter won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She earned three additional Academy Award nominations for ...

, Jason Alexander, and

Fisher Stevens Fisher Stevens (born Steven Fisher; November 27, 1963) is an American actor, director, producer and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Ben in ''Short Circuit'' and '' Short Circuit 2'', Chuck Fishman on the 1990s televi ...

all made their film debuts in '' The Burning'' (1981). That same year, he portrayed the Adult David in the 1981 Broadway musical '' Copperfield'', which flopped. He then played Eric Garrison on the

The Young and the Restless ''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in fictional Genoa City (not the real-life similarly-named Genoa City, ...

'' from 1983–1985. He went on to portray Brother Martin on '' Days of Our Lives'' from 1985–1986 and David Laurent on '' Santa Barbara'' in 1986. Then, he guest-starred in television shows such as '' Murder, She Wrote'' and acted in television movies before quitting acting. He then became a therapist and lives with his wife Leslee with whom he has five children. He ran for a position in the Republican primary in Texas in 2012 but lost.

References

''Soap Opera Digest''

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* 1953 births Living people American male soap opera actors Place of birth missing (living people) {{US-tv-actor-stub