Career
Mathew"s professional career began aged 8 when he was selected from more than 1000 boys to play the role of Young Peter Allen in the musical biopic The Boy From Oz about the "Peter Allen". Waters went on to star in a number of musicals such as Mame and Oliver! The Musical - The Artful Dodger before turning his hand to film. In 2003 he was invited to play a role in Peter Pan the movie after PJ Hogan had seen him perform in Oliver!.
Waters has subsequently appeared on television in the United Kingdom and Germany, and he has gone on to appear in the Spielberg/Hanks Home Box Office mini series "The Pacific" and also a Canadian production "Darwen"s Brave New World".
In December 2015, he played the Cowardly Lion in a pantomime production of The Wizard of Oz at the Shaw Theatre, London.