Matthew James “Matt” Roloff is an American television personality, author, farmer, business entrepreneur, and motivational speaker best known for participating with his family on the TLC reality television program Little People, Big World.
The show featured the Roloffs’ daily life. Roloff has dwarfism, as does his ex-wife Amy and one of their four children, Zachary. Roloff appeared as an extra in the movie, Under the Rainbow.
He also appeared as an Ewok in the Star Wars TV movie Ewoks: The Battle for Endor. Roloff worked as a computer programmer for Silicon Valley companies including Altos Computer Systems in the late 1980s. He sold systems software to Fortune 500 companies.
Roloff also has a number of other business ventures. On Little People, Big World, he is shown running the business he co-founded, Direct Access Solutions, a company that provides accessibility products for little people in the hospitality industry.
How old is Matthew Roloff?
Matthew Roloff is 61 years. . He was born to Ron and Peggy Roloff, who is often featured on Little People, Big World. They are of average height as is his older sister, Ruth.
His younger brother Sam, an artist and founder of Back-Story Underpainting, has diastrophic dysplasia and uses crutches to walk as well. His middle brother Joshua was born with severe heart malformation; he died in 1999 at age 34.
Where is Matthew Roloff from?
Matthew Roloff is from San Francisco, California, United States. The Roloff family includes Matt, Amy, also a little person with achondroplasia, and four children: fraternal twins Jeremy and Zachary (born 1990), Molly (born 1993), and Jacob (born 1997).
Zach, like his mother, has achondroplasia, while the other three children are of average height. Matt and Amy met at a Little People of America convention in 1987. The couple were engaged quickly and were married on September 12, 1987.
In March 2014, the couple announced that they had separated. On June 5, 2015, the couple announced they would be divorcing. Their divorce was finalized in May 2016