Matthew O'Toole

Matt O'Toole began working in the film industry at age 14. His first job was as a production runner on Tim Burton's Batman, which was shooting near his home in England at the legendary Pinewood Studios.

Since then, his career has taken him across the globe and back on big-budget epic productions, including three films with director Ridley Scott: the Best Picture Academy Award winner Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, and Black Hawk Down. Mr. O'Toole has also worked on such award-winning projects as the miniseries Band of Brothers; Alan Parker's Evita; Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot; Agnieszka Holland's The Secret Garden; Oliver Parker's Othello; and Wolfgang Petersen's Troy.

He has been based at Millennium Films and has been a producer on Sylvester Stallone's Rambo and the three The Expendables movies, among other action hits. Mr. O'Toole has more recently produced Rowan Joffe's Before I Go to Sleep, starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, and Mark Strong; James Franco's acclaimed William Faulkner adaptation As I Lay Dying; and Ariel Vromen's upcoming Criminal, the cast of which includes Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Gal Gadot, and Alice Eve.

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