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Matt Dillon
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- Date of Birth: 1964-02-18 (age 62)
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United States - Place of birth: New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
Matthew Raymond Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an American actor. He made his feature film debut in Over the Edge (1979) and established himself as a teen idol by starring in the films My Bodyguard (1980), Little Darlings (1980), Liar's Moon (1982), The Flamingo Kid (1984) and three of the four film adaptations of S.
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Matthew Raymond Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an American actor. He made his feature film debut in Over the Edge (1979) and established himself as a teen idol by starring in the films My Bodyguard (1980), Little Darlings (1980), Liar's Moon (1982), The Flamingo Kid (1984) and three of the four film adaptations of S. E. Hinton's books: Tex (1982), Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983). From the late 1980s onward, Dillon achieved further success, starring in Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Singles (1992), The Saint of Fort Washington (1993), To Die For (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996), In & Out (1997), There's Something About Mary (1998), and Wild Things (1998). In a 1991 article, movie critic Roger Ebert referred to him as the best actor within his age group, along with Sean Penn.
In 2002, he made his directorial debut with City of Ghosts and has since continued to act in films such as Factotum (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), The House That Jack Built (2018), and Asteroid City (2023). For Crash (2004), he won an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He had earlier been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for narrating Jack Kerouac's On the Road. On television, he starred in the first season of the FOX television series Wayward Pines (2015), for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award.
Backstage
- Cites Gene Hackman as a major idol and influence on his work, especially after working with him in Target (1985) .
- Won the role of Michael Richard "Dicky" Reynolds as an adolescent in The Blue Lagoon (1980) after hundreds of boys were auditioned but turned the role down because of the nudity.
- Original choice for "Butch Coolidge" in Pulp Fiction (1994) , later portrayed by Bruce Willis.
- Played a lead role in three of author S.E. Hinton 's books made into movies consecutively: Tex (1982) , The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983) .
- Is a runner, and regularly runs through Central Park in New York, where he lives. Usually he is not recognized.
- Was in a relationship with Cameron Diaz (January 1996-December 1998).
- Is a big fan of Cuban music.
- Quit smoking cigarettes in 1996.
- He is of almost entirely Irish descent, with a small amount of German and Scottish, ancestry.
- He traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo to work with Amani Global Works, which aims to provide better health care to the most impoverished, forgotten areas of Africa. (2012)
Awards
For Crash (2004), he won an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.He had earlier been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for narrating Jack Kerouac's On the Road.
