[citation needed] Le Nevez took a small role in Australian-made sci-fi series Farscape, followed by a part in teen drama Head Start.
He then played Aaron Reynolds, accomplice to the notorious Brenden James Abbott, the Post Card Bandit, in the TV miniseries of the same name.
The film Peaches saw him sharing a screen with Hugo Weaving and Jacqueline McKenzie, but it was the 2006 role of notorious Mathew Wales (convicted of the murders of his mother Margaret Wales-King and stepfather Paul King), in the TV movie The Society Murders, that won Le Nevez critical acclaim.
Written and directed by Jonathan Ogilvie, it is the story of Iris (Rose Byrne) and a love triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art (Matt Le Nevez), an earnest young boxer.
Le Nevez appeared as the boyfriend of "Kate" (Sibylla Budd) in the Come Walkabout commercial for Tourism Australia, directed by Baz Luhrmann.
In 2014, despite leaving Offspring to pursue acting in America, it was reported that Le Nevez was joining the cast of Australian T.V.