Matt Walsh

Matt Walsh starred in HBO's award-winning comedy series "Veep," as the deadpan press secretary Mike McLintock to Julia Louis-Dreyfus's vice president. In 2014, Walsh shared a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award nomination with his fellow "Veep" cast members in the category of Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

Walsh is a founding member of the national improv-sketch comedy theatre Upright Citizens Brigade, which has schools and venues in both New York and Los Angeles. A graduate of Chicago's ImprovOlympic, Walsh was instructed by the legendary comedy sage Del Close, whose distinguished pupils included John Belushi, Bill Murray, Tina Fey and Mike Myers. Walsh co-founded the Upright Citizens Brigade improv troupe with Amy Poehler, Matt Besser and Ian Roberts in Chicago in 1991. During the group's performances in New York, Comedy Central had their pulse on the foursome and aired their sketch-improv show, "The Upright Citizens Brigade," for three seasons, from 1998 to 2000. In 2013, Walsh and his peers co-authored The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual, which received a rave review from The New York Times.

In the wake of his success with "The Upright Citizens Brigade," Walsh has become a highly coveted actor in films, working with the most renowned directors in the comedy genre. Behind the camera, Walsh made his feature directorial debut in 2011 with the ensemble improvised comedy "High Road," featuring an all-star cast including Ed Helms, Abby Elliott, Rob Riggle, Horatio Sanz and Joe Lo Truglio. The film earned Walsh the Outstanding Achievement in Directing Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival.

Walsh is finishing his second comedy directorial feature, "A Better You," about an egocentric L.A.-based hypnotherapist who can cure everyone but himself. The film stars Sanz, Lo Truglio, Rob Huebel, Erinn Hayes, Brian Huskey and Reid Scott, among others.

At the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Walsh received critical praise for his role as a paranoid New York State municipal worker in David Cross's directorial debut, "Hits." In summer 2014, he flew to Spain to star in the comedy "Wild Oats," in which he plays a con man. The film also stars Shirley MacLaine, Demi Moore and Jessica Lange.

Walsh also appeared in Seth MacFarlane's $500 million-grossing comedy "Ted," and has appeared in six of Todd Phillips' hit films, including "The Hangover," "Old School" and "Due Date." He has also made memorable turns in such widely appealing comedies as "Step Brothers," "Elf," "Cyrus" and "Role Models." Walsh has also written and starred in a number of independent feature comedies, including "Martin & Orloff" and "Wild Girls Gone," titles which have headlined a number of his fellow UCB alums.

Walsh created and starred in Spike TV's sports comedy "Players." Other TV shows created and/or written by Walsh include Comedy Central's "Dog Bites Man"; David Arquette and Courteney Cox's TBS reality show "Daisy Does America"; and the hit MTV sketch show "Human Giant." Walsh has been a correspondent for "The Daily Show," hosting such hysterical segments as "Boom Town" and "The Other Killer White Meat." His other notable TV appearances include HBO's "Hung" and NBC's "Outsourced," as well as a number of guest-starring roles: Fox's "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"; NBC's "Parks and Recreation"; "Animal Practice"; Adult Swim's "Childrens Hospital" and "NTSF:SD:SUV"; and Comedy Central's "Pretend Time" and "Drunk History."

Though Walsh has a busy career on and off screen, he continues to be active with the Upright Citizens Brigade, both as an instructor and performer at their Sunday improv show, "Assssscat."

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