“Sharron Matthews is perfection.”
The Toronto Star, CANADA

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Sharron Matthews is an award-winning,  internationally acclaimed multi-hyphenate artist. Her exceptional work as a writer, actress and producer can be found on stage, in TV/film and in essays and articles around the world.

As an actress on the big screen, Sharron can be currently seen as MRS BILLUPS in the Disney Plus feature film OUT OF MY MIND, based on the hit novel by Sharon Draper, which debuted at SUNDANCE in January of 2024.

On the small screen,  Sharron can be seen in the new hit animated Nickelodeon TV show ZOKIE OF PLANET RUBY as KONKO which premiered December 2023 on Amazon Prime (U.S) , as the SHERIFF of Paris, Texas in the second season of the french language tv series, PARIS, PARIS, which premiered the beginning of 2024 on Unistv (Canada) and in March of 2024 she will guest star as MAISY MACK on the much anticipated musical episode of MURDOCH MYSTERIES, now in it’s seventeenth hit season on the CBC (Canada).

Sharron is also featured on John Ridley’s FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL as NURSE CHERI LANDRY, streaming on AppleTV+, as LUCY LAFONTAINE on all four seasons of the Family Channel’s hit show RUBY AND THE WELL , and GLADYS on season five of SLASHER with the Emmy award winning Eric McCormack on Shudder TV in the US and Hollywood Suite in Canada.

For four hit seasons, she was one of the stars of CBC (Canada), Ovation (U.S.), Alibi, (U.K) and PBS’s (U.S.) hit period crime drama FRANKIE DRAKE MYSTERIES, which streams on CBC Gem in Canada, Ovation in the US and countries all around the world. In both 2021 and 2019, she was nominated for Canadian Screen Awards for playing the role of FLO CHAKOWITZ on Frankie. On the fourth season of FDM, Sharron co-wrote the critically well-received episode LIFE IS A CABARET with Keri Ferencz.

As a exec-producer, writer and voice actor Sharron, alongside her co-creators Rebecca Liddiard and Carmen Albano, recently won the TOWEBFEST award for Best Animated Content for their original animated series MARY AND FLO ON THE GO, and a show which has been short listed for a Content Innovation Award from TBI in London. MARY AND FLO ON THE GO was nominated for a 2023 Canadian Screen Award for BEST DIGITAL SERIES, Sharron’s first nomination as a producer.

Also known for her portrayal of JOAN THE SECRETARY in Tina Fey’s iconic MEAN GIRLS, Sharron Matthews is an excitingly diverse, award winning Canadian artist, actress, singer, and comedienne.

Sharron has worked with John Travolta, Andrea Martin, and Ron Howard as well as toured her award winning one woman shows around the world from Africa to New York, Scotland and beyond. Sharron was featured in the films CINDERELLA MAN, TAKE THE LEAD, THE MUSIC MAN movie for Disney and HAIRSPRAY:THE MOVIE. She can also be seen on NBC’s TAKEN, played Chef Sylvia on the multi EMMY AWARD winning children’s TV show ODD SQUAD. Sharron also co-wrote, hosted and consulted on SLICE TV’s MEME gURL for Slice.

Sharron’s solo cabaret work has taken her across around the across Canada (where she was named BEST CABARET PERFORMER by Now Magazine and Broadway World) and around the world, selling out at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe for three years in a row (where, out of 3000 productions, her show was awarded BEST OF THE FEST). Sharron has toured all across Canada on a double bill with Canadian comedy icon, Mary Walsh, collaborated with Gavin Crawford of CBC’s Because News on a sell out World Pride show, and in 2017 premiered at Just For Laughs in Montreal and one week later packed Toronto’s High Park Amphitheatre for one night only with her acclaimed, award winning show, Girl Crush, which Broadway World awarded BEST CABARET PERFORMANCE of 2017.

She has toured North America in LES MISERABLES and Harold Prince’s SHOWBOAT, recorded her own album, PARTY GIRL, can be heard on the SHOWBOAT cast album, THE MUSIC MAN (for Disney) soundtrack and sang back ups on Jann Arden’s award winning Christmas album. One of the projects Sharron is most passionate about is her CABARET FOR KIDS, which she spent three years developing with Canada’s largest theatre for young audiences, Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre.

Sharron’s CABARET FOR KIDS explores the issues of body positivity, childhood anxiety, bullying and loving yourself the way you are, targeting 9-12 year olds and has played across Canada. It was nominated for Best New Play, Best Performance and Best Production at the 2018 Dora Awards.

Sharron has written essays and articles for publications around the world, recently she her first book, HELLO CHARLIE,  was optioned by Shaftesbury and is being developed as a digital series, co-created and co-written with Kat Sandler, funded by the IPF and the CMF.

Sharron is also in development with Shaftesbury on FOLLIES , a musical TV show that is co-created with and by Keri Ferencz and  Keavy Lynch.

She is a well known body positivity/neutrallity warrior with large followings on all three of her socials platforms (Twitter, Facebook and INSTAGRAM).Her newest venture, HOW VERY DARE SHE is a shamelessly irreverant blog on which she tackles issues like periomenopause, aging, sexism, sex, dating, love, self love, throwing away shit you don’t need (spiritually and physically) and anything else that makes people gasp because a woman in her 50’s says the word F**K, is quickly growing an enthusiastic, like-minded and empowered following of people… who can’t believe THEY have not said the word F**K in so long.

In 2023, Sharron was nominated for the prestigious PREMIER’S AWARD in the CREATIVE ARTS by her alma mater, Sheridan College.

Sharron is a proud member of ACTRA, Canadian Actor’s Equity, the Writer’s Guild of Canada, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.