Who Is Hallmark Channel’s Niall Matter? 5 Things to Know About the ‘Rip in Time’ Star

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Man of the hour! Niall Matter has been wowing Hallmark Channel fans since 2016 — having worked on more than 20 movies for the network — but he almost wasn’t an actor.Before breaking into Hollywood in 2007, Matter suffered a life-threatening accident at age 25 when an oil rig rolled over him and resulted in a lower body injury.

The 90210 alum had to learn how to re-walk and also chose to reevaluate his career aspirations during recovery.“When you have that amount of time to think about it, you realize how short life can be,” Matter told ET Canada in February 2015. “And you might as well spend your time doing what you love to do.”The Never Kiss a Man in a Christmas Sweater star’s path to acting was made that much easier by his secret weapon: a photographic memory.“I have been blessed with that,” he joked at the time. “You ask me what one of my lines were from last week and I can’t tell you!

It’s short-term. It’s very, very short term, but it works for a show like [2015’s Remedy].”After finding success on TV shows, he made his way to Hallmark Channel in 2016, starring in both Stop the Wedding and Finding Father Christmas that same year.

The actor cemented himself as a staple on the network when he reprised his holiday role as Ian McAndrick in Finding Father Christmas’ two sequels: 2017’s Engaging Father Christmas and 2018’s Marrying Father Christmas.The actor became an even bigger name within the Hallmark family after he began playing Candace Cameron Bure’s love interest on the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries franchise in 2018.