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Nationality
  
Canadian

Known for
  
Puppet design


Name
  
Matt Ficner

Role
  
Actor

Born
  
1973
Ottawa, Canada

Occupation
  
Film actor Television actor Puppeteer Entrepreneur

Parent(s)
  
Debbie Ficner (mother) John Ficner (Father)

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Matt Ficner (born 1973) is a Canadian actor, puppeteer, and entrepreneur. For over two decades, Matt has been involved in television, film and theatre projects. As president of Matt Ficner Productions Inc., he received a Top Forty Under 40 award from the Ottawa Business Journal in 2006 in recognition of entrepreneurial success.

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He worked with the puppets on the movie Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and has worked on multiple kids shows like Caillou and Ace Lightning. On Ace Lightning Mr. Ficner designed the computer-generated characters for the series, and also provided the voices of Zip and Snip in the first season. In 2008, Boingboing.net featured one of Mr. Ficner's Creepy Puppet shorts called Dusty Zombies. In 2009 he acted and did puppetry on the webseries Spellfury. He created the character of Dennis the raccoon for the Canadian television series Wingin' It.

As actor

  • Caillou (1998) as Teddy
  • Noddy (1 episode, 1998) as Johnny Crawfish's Assistant
  • Brats of the Lost Nebula (1998)
  • Ace Lightning (2002) as Snip
  • The Creepy Puppet Project (2004) as Doc. Whotnaught
  • Spellfury (6 episodes, 2008-2009) as Tarek
  • Wingin' It (13 episodes, 2010) as Dennis
  • As puppeteer

  • Ace Lightning (26 episodes, 2002) (as character designer)
  • Wilbur (26 episodes, 2006)
  • Planet Bizzaro: The World According to Zoomer (26 episodes, 2006–2007)
  • Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)
  • Noddy in Toyland (4 episodes, 2009)
  • The Thing (2011)
  • As writer, producer, director

  • The Creepy Puppet Project (2004)
  • References

    Matt Ficner Wikipedia