17 July 1971) is an actor from the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, most famous for his role as Sam Harker in ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

's The Bill

The Bill

The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...

. He has also appeared in various other TV shows, including two distinct roles in Brookside

Brookside

Brookside is a defunct British soap opera set in Liverpool, England. The series began on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982, and ran for 21 years until 4 November 2003...

 (Darren Murphy

Darren Murphy

Darren Murphy is an Irish footballer who plays for Stevenage in League One as a midfielder. He previously played for Cork City in the League of Ireland....

 in 1992, and Dan Morrissey in 2002-3). From 3 December 2007 he has played Dan Mason in Coronation Street

Coronation Street

Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

, signing a new one year contract in April 2008. He was once gunged on "Mad For It".Matthew has performed at the Royal National Theatre in 'Somewhere' directed by Polly Teale and took the male lead in 'Westend Girls' written by Jonathan Harvey for ITV.He also took to the stage at 'The Almeda Theatre' in an operetta called 'Siren Song' which was composed by Jonathan Dove and directed by Ian McDirmid. Matthew also presented Saturday Disney for ITV before leaving to join the Bill. He has guest starred in Casualty, Holby,Doctors and Heartbeat.Matthew also writes and performs comedy at the likes of the Canal Cafe and the Landor Theatre in London.Matthew has recently finished filming and recording on a variety of projects including 'Waterloo Road' for the BBC, Romeo Echo Delta by artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard and some character work for a new exhibition 'Revolution' at the Museum of Liverpool. Matthew has also completed filming on a new film called 'Advance to Contact'which is about soldiers returning from Afganistan with post traumatic stress disorder. Richard Marson's book celebrating fifty years of Blue Peter

Blue Peter

Blue Peter is the world's longest-running children's television show, having first aired in 1958. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC channel. During its history there have been many presenters, often consisting of two women and two men at a time...

comments that Crompton once auditioned as a presenter on the show.