Matt Parkman
Famous as : Actor
Birth Name : Gregory Phillip Grunberg
Birth Date : July 11, 1966
Birth Place : Los Angeles, California, USA
Spouse : Elizabeth Dawn Wershow (since 19-Dec-92)
Claim to fame : As Matt Parkman in TV series “Heroes”
Matt Parkman is an advanced human with the power of telepathy and telepathic domination.
Matthew “Matt” Parkman is introduced in volume one as an LAPD officer. He has long desired to become a detective, but because of stress problems when taking exams, he is unable to complete the testing necessary and is stuck as an officer. However, while Matt is at a murder scene, he begins to discover the power to hear an individuals thoughts. This first appears as he hears the the pleas of a young girl, still inside the house where several murders took place. The voice is Molly Walker, a girl who Matt grows attached to throughout the volume, and results in him and Dr. Mohinder Suresh taking her in as their ‘daughter’.
Matt Parkman’s powers grew during Season 2, acquiring an active element similiar to his father’s ability, that of Telepathic Domination. This power enables him to project his thoughts to others and make them obey his orders to an extent. People with stronger wills, like Noah Bennet or Angela Petrelli, require more effort, energy and concentration to even to make them talk, but his commands go beyond mere hypnosis as he can make people comply with orders they would not normally obey.
During Volume 3, Future Peter Petrelli teleported Parkman into the African wilderness, where he went on a spirit quest that imbued him with the power of Precognitive Painting, like Isaac Mendez, but it is not something that he can consciously activate as other precognative painters have learned to do.