Matt Nable
- Actor
- Autor
- Director
Matthew "Matty" Nable is a former Rugby League footballer turned actor.
After playing in the Winfield Cup Premiership for the Manly-Warringah
Sea Eagles and South Sydney Rabbitohs during the 1990s, he wrote and
starred in the rugby league-centered drama The Final Winter in 2007. He
is a good friend and frequent collaborator of former Newcastle
Five-Eighth turned actor Matthew Johns in television as well. Nable
grew up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney and also, as a young boy,
spent two years at Portsea, Victoria when his father, a soldier, was
stationed there. His father had also worked as a trainer for the
Australian national rugby league team and his brother, Adam Nable,
would become a professional player as well. Matt rose through the junior
ranks at the Manly-Warringah club and made half-a-dozen appearances for
the first-grade team, later switching to the South Sydney Rabbitohs for
a stint. After another season in England where he played for Carlisle
before moving to the London Broncos.