Matt Doherty

Matthew Doherty (born June 22, 1978, in Harvey, Illinois) is an American actor. He is known for his role of Lester Averman in The Mighty Ducks trilogy.

Doherty is a graduate of Thornwood High School, a southern suburban high school in the Chicago area. While at Thornwood, he played trumpet in the school's band. As part of Matthew's tutoring while on the set of The Mighty Ducks, he took trumpet lessons from Los Angeles studio musicians.

He graduated with a theatre degree from Northwestern University in 1999, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.

He is best known for playing the roles of Lester Averman in The Mighty Ducks trilogy (although in D1 he is referred to as Dave Averman). However, Doherty's greatest role was as William "Heed" MacKenzie in So I Married An Axe Murderer. Doherty's character, Heed, is involved in two dialogues with Mike Myers as Charlie's father, Stuart Mackenzie. The first is when May Mackenzie, Charlie's mother, (Brenda Fricker) yells "Stuart! Bring in the Paper!" Interesting, and quite a propos, the "paper" is actually the eminent publication Weekly World News. Stuart then yells at Heed, "Heed! Paper! Now!" The second is when Charlie brings his new girlfriend (played by Nancy Travis), who grabs Stuart in a Grappling hold when Mike Myers, as Stuart, yells at Doherty, as Heed, "Heed! Pants! Now!"

Doherty had a role on the TV series Boston Public, in which he shared the screen with Northwestern alum Jeri Ryan. He did a commercial in which he parodied the sound-effect featured on The Six Million Dollar Man. He is then corrected by Lee Majors, who played the title character. Doherty is also set to return to the screen, alongside The Mighty Ducks co-star Emilio Estevez, once again as Lester Averman, in the Disney+ serial reboot of the movies, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers.