title: Matt Gunn
text: # Matt Gunn
  
  Matthew Gunn (born April 22, 1972) is an American writer and actor from St. Louis, Missouri.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Gunn has four brothers — filmmaker James, actor Sean, screenwriter Brian, producer and former Executive Vice President of Artisan Entertainment Patrick — and a sister, Beth.
  
  He and his brothers all attended the Jesuit St. Louis University High School, where he graduated in 1990. Their parents are Leota and James F. Gunn, who is a retired partner and corporate attorney with the law firm Thompson Coburn in St. Louis.
  
  ## Writing
  
  In 1997, he wrote, produced, and starred in Man About Town, a 22-minute film that won the Sundance Film Festival's Short Filmmaking Award. Gunn is a political and humor writer on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, for which he won a Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Comedy/Variety Talk Series and was nominated for an Emmy five times. Gunn played "Dan McMahon" in the 2003 film, The Man Who Invented the Moon.
  
  