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Matthew Berry

Matthew Berry was born on December 29, 1969 in Denver, Colorado. During his childhood, he had to move many times with his parents. They lived in Richmond, Atlanta, he also lived for a while in Virginia, Charlottesville and Georgia. Finally, his parents settled down in College Station, Texas.

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Matthew grew up in a respected and wealthy family. His mother Nancy Berry worked as a mayor of College Station, and his father Leonard Berry was a distinguished professor of marketing at Texas A&M University.

Matthew Berry entered to Syracuse University, and successfully graduated from it in in 1992. After the University, Berry moved to Los Angeles having a dream to become famous showman and TV personality. His efforts were not in vain, and he finally got a job of an assistant in an American sitcom The George Carlin Show, created by Sam Simon and aired on Fox.

On that position, he showed himself as a talented writer, so he was recommended to work with Warner Brothers Writer's Workshop as a scriptwriter. On that position, Matthew Berry eventually freed his talent, and wrote many good scripts. His most famous works were Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001) and Married... with Children (last year).

However, the real passion of Matthew Berry still has not been released. His real passion was Fantasy Sports analyzing. In one of his interviews on the "The B.S. Report with Bill Simmons" podcast he described in details, how he came to the fantasy analyzing from scriptwriting. He joined ESPN, where he has worked as a fantasy analyst and columnist for a long time.

He wrote scripts for such movies and TV shows, like Kirk (1995), Ink (1996); he worked as an editor and producer for Conrad Bloom (1998), Gary & Mike (2001), Abby (2003) and others.

Since 2007, he worked as a Fantasy Analyst, in his podcasts: ESPN Fantasy Focus Podcast, and since 2008, he has hosted TV show Fantasy Football Now.

Apart from his work, he actively participated in different projects, appearing as a guest: Dancing with the Stars (2009), The League (2011) and Mike & Mike (2011 – 2015). For his dedicated work, Matthew won a lot of awards, including Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approach, ‘’Fantasy Football Now’’. Five times in a row, he was a winner of a Fantasy Sports Writers Association Award and Podcast Award.

Berry met his future wife Beth Berry on ESPN, they have dated for a some time, and eventually they got married. In their long marriage, Beth gave a birth to their five children. They all lived together in their apartment in Connecticut. Matthew and Beth are active users of Twitter. They publish the most important news, and if you are excited about life story of Matthew, you should definitely visit his page.

In the case, is you want to delve deeper into the biography of Matthew, there is much more information in his page on Wikipedia and IMDb. His books Fantasy Life: The Outrageous, Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports from the Guy Who's Lived It and Uplifting you can buy on Amazon.com


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 29 Dec, 1969
Age: 50 yrs
Occupations: Sports journalist
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: Denver
residence: College Station
Connecticut
Education: Syracuse University
S.I. Newhouse School Of Public Communications
Gender: Male
Description: American sportswriter
Twitter Id: MatthewBerryTMR
Net Worth 2021: 2 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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