Matthew Flynn appeared in Coronation Street as DC - later DS Sutton - and made intermittent appearances between May 2006 and October 2019.
On television he has appeared in Foyle's War, the 2005 remake of The Quatermass Experiment, Doctors and Midsomer Murders. He appeared in the film Sahara in 2005 and on stage has played in The Gentleman's Tea-Drinking Society, Macbeth, Hangover Square, How Many Miles To Basra? and Troilus And Cressida at Shakespeare's Globe.