- Played a Nazi in Downfall (2004) and a Holocaust victim in The Ninth Day (2004).
- Is one of the German voices of Kenneth Branagh.
- 2005: Was voted "Actor of the Year" by 'Theater heute' magazine for his performance in Edward Albees' "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
- His brother Dieter Matthes is a doctor, photographer and actor.
- Member of #ActOut in Spring 2021 and one of 185 Actors who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans*, queer, inter and non-binary, among many other things.
- He is the younger son of Else Matthes and Günter Matthes, the latter a one-time journalist for Berlin-based daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel.
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