In 1991, when Lanter’s age is 8 years old, then his family moved to Atlanta, Georgia. His father Joseph Hayes Lanter and mother Jana Kay has one son and one daughter. His sister name is Kara. The ancestry of Matt Lanter includes English, Polish, Scottish, Austrian and German. When he is in high school, then he spent most of his time playing football, baseball and golf and afterward he joined as a bat boy in the Atlanta Braves Baseball team. In 2001, he passed out from Collins Hill High School. When he was a senior in his high school, then his parents got divorced from their marriage. He majored in sports business from the University of Georgia. But he eventually moved to Hollywood due to his strong desire to become an actor in the television and movie Industry. His grandfather, Kenley Lanter, was asurvivor of the major incident of USS Indianapolis sinking.

In 2004, Lanter took part as a contestant in a reality show of Model Hunting. He lost the competition in the end, but in a few weeks of staying in Los Angeles, Lanter successfully got a role of Nick on the Fox’s Supernatural Teenage Drama Series ‘Point Pleasant’. He also guest starred in one of the best television show ‘Grey’s anatomy’. In 2005, he signed a regular role of Horace Calloway on ABC’s series Commander in chief. After the cancellation of ABC’s series, he took part in the series “The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream” as a lead role of Zach Conroy in 2008. In the same year, he announced to do the lead role of Will in a comedy movie “Disaster Movie”. He played a role in that movie with the cast of Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Minnillo and Carmen Electra. That movie is a disaster on the box office.

In 2009, he joined The CW’s series 90210 doing the role of Liam Court. He was also declared as a regular of the second season for the same series. In 2010, he started working on a comedy film Vampire Suck as a role of Edward Sullen.

In December 2006, he got a major breakthrough for the animated movie Star wars: The Clone wars to do the role of Anakin Skywalker. The film had earned successfully $69,182,844 worldwide. After the success of the movie, he became a regular on the television series of the same movie to play the role of Anakin Skywalker.

On June 14, 2013, Lanter married to his girlfriend, Angela Stacy. Both of them are in a relationship for more than four years. Angela Stacey has said to media that she is very happy to be the wife of Matt lanter. Matt Lanter has an estimated net worth of $2 million as of 2016.