As an actor, playing a fan favorite supporting character as Lyle The Pawnshop Guy on Netflix smash hit "Cobra Kai", Matt Borlenghi first came to attention on "All My Children", opposite Kelly Ripa, for which he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy and won a Soap Opera Digest Award. Borlenghi then starred on several prime time TV shows such as "The Jeff Foxworthy Show", "Pig Sty", "Party Girl", and "Police Academy: the series", as well as a pilot for a "Married with Children" spin-off titled "Enemies", opposite Nicole Eggert. Matt recently wrapped on two new planned series, "Townsend", as the title character and producer, and "Letters to Addy" in a supporting series regular role. Matt has been appearing on other shows lately such as "Saved by Grace", TV movies "Lethal Admirer", "The Bobby DeBarge Story" and "Our Dream Wedding" as well as films "115 Grains", "Divine Influencer" and "90 Days Past Due".

Matt is a multiple award-winning producer (Townsend) and has spent several years developing TV shows with and for production companies and networks. One of his shows, a crime investigation named "Postmortem in Vegas", was co-produced by NorthSouth Productions and A&E Networks and aired as a 1 hour special on LMN. Further, Matt created, wrote and is prepping another proposed TV series, "ATF", based on the life work of his good friend who spent 25 years working as an undercover ATF agent.

He also has a role in the remake of the super-successful video game "Mafia", as the voice of Sergio Morello.