Matthew Ziff

Ziff was born in Englewood, New Jersey, the son of philanthropist and insurance broker, Laurence F. Ziff and actress and real estate investor, Lorraine Ziff. He attended the Blair Academy.

Ziff's professional career began a few months after his birth, signing with Wilhelmina Modeling Agency at 2 months old.{{Cite web |title=Matthew Ziff - Biography |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3556158/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}} His first TV appearance was on The David Letterman Show. As a child model, he featured in numerous print ads, campaigns, and TV commercials. At the age of eight, Ziff was a guest star on Late Night with Conan O’Brien in a skit called "Late Night with Matthew Ziff."{{Cite web |title=Matthew Ziff - Trivia |url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm3556158/trivia/?ref_=nm_ql_3 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}} He appeared in Mansion of Blood alongside Robert Picardo and Gary Busey.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1929310/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm#cast|title=Full cast and crew for Mansion of Blood (2013)|publisher=IMDb.com|accessdate=2013-08-09}} Ziff is also the executive producer of "Six Gun Savior" and a co-producer of "Mansion of Blood". In the 2016, Ziff appeared in the Kickboxer reboot.

Riff has no credited roles since 2017.

He played quidditch in the 2012 International Quidditch Association Global Games for Team USA where they won gold. He played and coached quidditch at the University of Miami for five years as a "beater" while attending.

Ziff graduated in May 2014 with a bachelor's and master's in industrial engineering. His thesis research on the lumbar spine, A Novel Approach for Predicting In-Vivo Lumbar Spine Loads and Kinematics Based on Motion Analysis, was presented at the 7th World Biomechanics Congress in Boston in July 2014.{{cite conference|author1=M. Eltoukhy |author2=M. Ziff |author3=S. Elmasry |author4=F. Travascio |author5=S. Asfour |title= A Novel Approach for Predicting In-Vivo Lumbar Spine Loads and Kinematics Based on Motion Analysis |location= Boston, Massachusetts|date = July 6–11, 2014}} Because of his engineering background, he was featured in Exxon Mobil's TV Spot [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoGTWqlPJew "Be An Engineer"].

In 2020, Ziff received a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from City College of New York. As of 2025, Ziff is the Director of Makerspace at Belmont Hill School.{{Cite web |title=Science {{!}} Belmont Hill School - All Boys Private School |url=https://www.belmonthill.org/academics/departments/science |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=www.belmonthill.org |language=en-US}}

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• Sunscreen Film Festival – Best Up & Coming Actor for Treachery (2013)
• Hoboken International Film Festival – Best Actor for Treachery (2014)
• Action Martial Arts Magazine Hall of Honors 2015 – Rising Star Award (2015)
• Action Martial Arts Magazine Hall of Honors 2015 – Outstanding Achievements in the Martial Arts (2015)
• Sunscreen Film Festival – Best Supporting Actor for The Martial Arts Kid (2015)

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