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Profile of Matt Dillon
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Matt Dillon |
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18th February 1964 |
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New Rochelle, New York, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Matt Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Irish-American actor, originally from Mamaroneck, New York. He is the older brother of Kevin Dillon. Matt has had a steady film career after making successful transition from teenage movies of the 1980s films through films of the 1990s, including To Die For, There's Something About Mary and the 2000s.
His first role was at age 14 in Over the Edge, which lead to roles in Little Darlings (1980) and Tex (1982). In the mid-1980s, Dillon had prominent roles in the Francis Ford Coppola's S.E Hinton adaptions The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983).
In 1989, Dillon won critical acclaim for his performance as Bob in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy.
Dillon continued to work in early 90s with roles in movies like Gen X movie Singles (1992). He had somewhat of a career resurge as the role of Nicole Kidman's husband in To Die For (1995) and Wild Things (1998), and There's Something About Mary (1998) for which he received an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.
In 2002, he also wrote and directed the 2002 film City of Ghosts, starring himself, James Caan and Gérard Depardieu.
His most recent films are Crash, which was cowritten and directed by Paul Haggis, who also wrote Million Dollar Baby. He also stars in Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded, playing bad boy racer Trip Murphy.
Selected Filmography
- Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
- Crash (2005)
- There's Something About Mary (1998)
- Wild Things (1998)
- In & Out (1997)
- Beautiful Girls (1996)
- To Die For (1995)
- Singles (1992)
- A Kiss Before Dying (1991)
- Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
- The Flamingo Kid (1984)
- Rumble Fish (1983)
- The Outsiders (1983)
- Little Darlings (1980)
- Over the Edge (1979)
- There is also a computer scientist named Matt Dillon, founder of the DragonFlyBSD project.
- Matt Dillon is also the name of the main character in the long-running radio and television western drama Gunsmoke. (See Marshal Matt Dillon.)
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