- Is best friends with Nina Dobrev and Sara Paxton.
- Was a batboy for the Atlanta Braves.
- He is a model-turned-actor.
- Was cast for the role of "Anakin Skywalker" in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) only two days after auditioning for the role.
- Attended the University of Georgia, majoring in Business, after attending a community college for two years.
- On June 14, 2013, he married his longtime girlfriend, Angela Stacy. The two had been in a relationship since 2009.
- He was on the reality show Manhunt: The Search for America's Most Gorgeous Male Model (2004), from Bravo, as "Matt Lauder". Although he did not win the contest, he was in the top 10 contestants.
- Matt's maternal grandparents were both of part Polish descent. Matt's other ancestry is English, Austrian, Scottish, German, and more distant Irish and 1/128th German Jewish-Dutch Jewish. Through his father, Matt is descended from the Sheftall family, Jewish immigrants who settled in Georgia in the 1700s; Matt's six times great-grandfather Levi Sheftall was the brother of Mordecai Sheftall. Mordecai was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, who was the highest ranking Jewish officer of the Colonial forces.
- In order to prepare for his role in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), he watched the entire "The Clone Wars" micro-series.
- He really enjoys being outdoors, playing golf and relaxing at the beach.
- Top Gun (1986) is one of his favorite movies.
- His parents got divorced when he was a senior in high school.
- Moved to the LA area to pursue acting. (July 2005)
- Lanter and his wife welcomed their first child, daughter MacKenlee Faire Lanter, on December 30, 2017.
- Lanter was born in Massillon, Ohio, and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1991.
- Is good friends with E! presenter Jason Kennedy.
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