Matthew Rush is a retired bi-racial American pornographic actor

Pornographic actor

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 who appeared in gay pornographic films and magazines. He is also a bodybuilder

Bodybuilding

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 and personal trainer

Personal trainer

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 under his real name. He has competed at the Gay Games

Gay Games

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 in Amsterdam

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 and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

As a porn star, Rush was under a lifetime exclusive contract with Falcon Studios. In 2009, Rush ended his contract with Falcon, ending his exclusive contract to pursue other projects in the industry, including his first post-Falcon project was a porn video and photo shoot with photographer Jon Royce on January 22, 2009. Matthew Rush is a powerful top in most of his films, but can also perform as a vocal bottom. His first post-Falcon porn shoot was with Pantheon Productions in San Francisco on January 23, 2009. In this film - called Brief Encounters (Real Men, Vol. 17) - Rush played a nasty son and flip-flopped with hairy daddy Tim Kelly. Rush's career was revitalized when he joined the website MenOver30.com in 2009. His easy going attitude and versatility has earned him the 2010 Grabby Award as Best Versatile Performer as well as the 2010 GayVN Award

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 in the same category.

Rush has appeared in the TV detective film Third Man Out

Third Man Out (film)

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, starring Chad Allen

Chad Allen (actor)

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, and in the motion picture Another Gay Movie

Another Gay Movie

Another Gay Movie is a 2006 gay romantic comedy film directed by Todd Stephens. It satirically follows four gay friends, Andy, Jarod, Nico and Griff, who vow upon graduating high school that they will all lose their "anal virginity" before their bull dyke friend Muffler's big Labor Day party...

. From 2002 to 2005, he acted in a traveling stage production of Ronnie Larsen's, Making Porn.

In October 2011, Rush announced his retirement from porn.

Selected videography

• L.A. Zombie
  L.A. Zombie
  L.A. Zombie is a 2010 queer cinema zombie film. The film is written and directed by Bruce LaBruce and stars gay pornographic actor François Sagat. The film premiered in competition at Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland in 2010.-Synopsis:...
  
  (2010)
• Whorrey Potter and the Sorcerer's Balls (2010, 97 min, "Voldemorecock", Dominic Ford Features)
• Playing with Fire 4: Alarm (2009)
• Brief Encounters (2009, 92 min)
• Full Access (2009)
• Private Party 3: The Mystery Revealed (2009)
• Bootstrap (Falcon Pac 159) (2005, 150 min)
• The Cross Country Global Collection (2005, 180 min)
• Cross Country Part 1 (Falcon Pac 161) (2005, 90 min)
• Cross Country Part 2 (Falcon Pac 162) (2005, 90 min)
• Heaven to Hell (Falcon Pac 160) (2005, 120 min)
• Up All Night (Falcon Pac 163) (2005, 84 min)
• The Recruits (Falcon Pac 152) (2004, 85 min)
• The Taking Flight Set (2004, 219 min)
• Taking Flight Part 1 (Falcon Pac 154) (2004, 114 min)
• Taking Flight Part 2 (Falcon Pac 155) (2004, 105 min)
• The Drenched Set (2003, 197 min)
• Drenched Part 1 (Falcon Pac 149) (2003, 105 min)
• Drenched Part 2 (Falcon Pac 150) (2003, 92 min)
• Good as Gold (Falcon Pac 147) (2003, 90 min)
• The Aftershock Set (2002, 170 min)
• Aftershock: Part 2 (Mustang Pac 068) (2002, 86 min)
• The Deep South Set (2002, 178 min)
• Deep South Part 2 (Falcon Pac 145) (2002, 90 min)
• Defined (Falcon Pac 143) (2002, 87 min)
• Splash Shots III (Falcon Pac 141) (2002, 98 min)
• Alone With - Volume 1 (FAW 001) (2001, 87 min)
• Bounce (Falcon Pac 136) (2001, 85 min)
• Hazed (Jocks Pac 107) (2001, 75 min)
• Hooked (Jocks Pac 108) (2001, 85 min)
• The Other Side of Aspen V (Falcon Pac 139) (2001, 90 min)
• Ready for More (Jocks Pac 109) (2001, 78 min)
• Heroes: Men of Falcon (2003, 80 pages)
• Adam Gay Video Directory - 2002 (2001)
• Matthew Rush Supercock

See also

• List of pornographic movie studios
• List of male performers in gay porn films

External links

• Friskyfans.org Biography of Matthew Rush