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Po ukončení gymnázia se neúspěšně pokoušel dostat na práva, nakonec vystudoval brněnskou JAMU. V roce 1994 se stal členem brněnského HaDivadla, kde sehrál za dobu svého působení řadu rolí; za zmínku stojí např. hlavní úloha ve Faustovi, postava Veršinina ve Třech sestrách, jeden z exmanažerů v Top dogs či jeho účinkování v dramatu Král Oidipus, znamenitém režisérském počinu J. A. Pitínského. Krom domovské scény působil také v brněnském Divadle v 7 a půl, kde ho diváci mohli vidět např. v hrách Oči bludných hvězd, Repetent nebo Baummel. Vedle divadelních prken si Tomáš našel svou cestu i k filmu; v něm se poprvé objevil v roce 1995 v malé roli v komedii Byl jednou jeden polda (1995) režiséra Jaroslava Soukupa. Do povědomí diváků se dostal díky filmům Divoké včely (režie Bohdan Sláma, 2001) a Mistři (režie Marek Najbrt, 2004). Dále hrál například ve filmech Vyhnání z ráje Věry Chytilové (2000), Hrubeš a Mareš jsou kamarádi do deště (režie Vladimír Morávek, 2005), Muž, kterého chtějí (režie Irena Pavlásková, 2004), Gympl (režie Tomáš Vorel, 2007), Bestiář Ireny Pavláskové (2006) nebo ve filmu Bobule (režie Tomáš Bařina, 2007). Televizní diváci ho ovšem především znají ze seriálů – např. Rodinná pouta, Bazén, To nevymyslíš, Ulice, Trapasy, Comeback (2008). Některé jeho televizní projekty, především alternativní zábavný pořad Komediograf, který vyšel z úspěšného divadelního představení, které Matonoha s kolegou Pavlem Liškou uvedli v HaDivadle a na dalších brněnských i pražských scénách, jsou spojeny s pojmem nezávislé scény. Účastní se též dalšího originálního hereckého projektu – komických vystoupení typu stand-up, které natočila stanice HBO pod titulem Na stojáka. Manželkou Tomáše Matonohy je herečka Lucie Benešová, vychovávají spolu čtyři děti.

This unofficial Czech remake of Alexander Payne's blockbuster seriocomedy Sideways (2004) concerns Jirka and Honza, two friends who check in as complete opposites on every level; Honza is a polished urbanite, Jirka a nickel-and-dime crook with a flair for wooing women. The men's friendship is characterized by an unending series of wild schemes and escapades. When Honza learns of his grandfather's impending death, it brings him face-to-face with his own mortality and encourages him to fulfill his long-held dream, while he still has the opportunity: to embark on a dream vacation to the vineyards of Morovia, with buddy Jirka in tow.

Do you have dreams? Any unfulfilled wishes? A group of retirees set out on a trip to fulfill them and reminisce about their younger years working at the municipal spa. Kňoura, Josefa, Janata, Kačera, and grandson Tomáš are in for a trip they will never forget. A helicopter flight, sleeping under the stars, dinner at a posh restaurant, a race with a Formula 1 driver, but also fun on the merry-go-round.

Andrew is a tough businessman and an arrogant workaholic. He runs a large, successful company in Prague. The meaning of his life is money. Ondřej has just negotiated the deal of a lifetime in Nebraska with a wealthy investor who will finance the construction of luxury residences on the outskirts of Prague. On his way back from America, the plane flies over a reservation where an Indian chief is being buried. The spirit of the Indian rising to the sky crashes into the plane and inadvertently becomes incarnate in Ondrej. And this spirit has decidedly different ideas about Andrew's life and values.

This movie is about strange relationships in one "noname" gymnasium in Czech republic.
Sixteen-year-old apprentice Zuzka commutes to Prague, where she is studying to become a "mechanic and agricultural machinery adjuster." She lives alternately at a boarding school and at her parents' farm. At home, endless work awaits her, and at school, she is constantly ridiculed by her classmates. Only at night, in the girls' dormitory, under the covers, can she live out her dreams of love. She is secretly and platonically in love with actor and singer Jiří Pavel, about whom she knows everything. She keeps a scrapbook diary in which she records all of Pavel's acting and singing successes.

“The fact that I’m playing myself doesn’t mean that it’s me.” Four old schoolmates, today well-known Czech actors (Pavel Liška, Tomáš Matonoha, Josef Polášek and Marek Daniel), decide to make a movie together. Their ambitious colleague Jan Budař takes up directing duties and financing has arrived from Poland. What started out pleasantly enough, however, soon goes awry. Liška’s pronunciation difficulties, Daniel’s alter ego Havlát, and Matonoha’s financial machinations turn the shoot into a fight for survival. More than just a film about friendship and the absurdity of actors’ lives, director Marek Najbrt gives us a witty meditation on reality and illusion, and a unique take on the reality film genre. One of Pavel Liška’s on-set comments (“I didn’t know if I should act as if I were acting, or act as if I weren’t acting, or just not act at all”) illustrates the provocative nature of Najbrt’s subversive, quasi-documentary game.

Bestiary is the story of a young woman, Karolína, whose life is profoundly changed by her relationship with Alex, a mysterious and elusive man. It is a relationship full of uncertainty and strange ambiguities, a relationship that is exhausting. Karolína decides to break free from her emotional dependence and learn from other men how to stop being submissive. She wants to be the one who sets the pace, she wants a change of roles.

The film, which opens with students arriving at a police academy, is a crazy comedy that is more a series of zany episodes and jokes than a coherent story. They are linked by a simple plot in which the commander of the police academy, Major Maisner, searches among his recruits for an alleged FBI spy and, after a not-so-subtle practical joke, gets into a dispute with his subordinate, a dispute that ends in a genuine bank robbery.

The movie is based on the narrative of a Czech multimillionaire who achieved success not by stripping companies, making crooked deals and crony-ism, but by blazing his own trail like Schweikesque self-made man. He realizes early on that he has nobody but himself to rely on. During the totalitarian regime of the 80s, he ambles along his oddball path and then experiences the Velvet Revolution atypically, too - in an asylum amidst nut-cases. After the Revolution, he really gets rolling. To Germany and back. To prison and back. To China and back. The intriguing and endless opportunities afforded by the Internet eventually blossom into virtual prosperity. The hero has everything and is even planning a highly unorthodox family. A happy ending is nigh, until everything goes up in smoke, of course...
Petr studies law in Prague, Jakub studies philosophy there. They are the best of friends until their holiday trip to Slovakia is crossed by a Romani young man named Imro. Imro is in love with Eržika, who is guilty of breaking an ancient tradition by breaking her vow of loyalty. The vow is the law. In a fit of jealousy, Imro kills his beloved. Two punishments await him. One from the majority "white" society, the other from his own Roma community. Petr and Jakub watch Imro's tragic fate from close proximity and their views on the matter of justice and punishment begin to diverge diametrically. The academic controversy eventually escalates into a fundamental conflict of life attitudes that almost destroys their friendship. Whose side is the truth on?
