Background
Kennard was born in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, and has had several notable roles in British drama series, including Coronation Street, Hollyoaks and The Bill.
Kennard was born in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, and has had several notable roles in British drama series, including Coronation Street, Hollyoaks and The Bill.
He also starred as Manchester United football player Duncan Edwards in a British Broadcasting Corporation dramatisation of the 1958 Munich Air Disaster. One of Matt"s earlier roles was in the series "Love in the 21st Century", broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999, created by Red Productions, who were previously responsible for the acclaimed Queer as Folk. Kennard"s character is seduced by a school teacher who believes she is giving him experience, although it later transpires he had made a bet that he could sleep with her.
Kennard starred in the seventh series of Waterloo Road as Craig O" Leary, he played a con-man who pretended to be interested in "Janeece Bryant" (Chelsee Healey).
Kennard will appear as Dave in the movie Bula Quo!, released in 2013. Also in 2013, he had a short stint in Emmerdale as shady businessman, Kirk Stoker.
He appeared in CBBC"s The Dumping Ground in 2016.