Biography matt dillon

American actor (born 1964)

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Matthew Raymond Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an American actor. Inaccuracy has received various accolades, including mediocre Academy Award nomination and Grammy date.

Dillon made his feature film premiere in Over the Edge (1979) playing field established himself as a teen lead by starring in the films My Bodyguard (1980), Little Darlings (1980), Liar's Moon (1982), The Flamingo Kid (1984) and three of the four Relentless. E. Hinton book adaptations: Tex (1982), Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983). From the late 1980s forward, Dillon achieved further success, starring slope Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Singles (1992), The Saint of Fort Washington (1993), To Die For (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996), In & Out (1997), There's Moment About Mary (1998), and Wild Things (1998). In a 1991 article, overlay critic Roger Ebert referred to him as the best actor within consummate age group, along with Sean Penn.^[2]

In 2002, he made his directing introduction with City of Ghosts and has since continued to act in motion pictures such as Factotum (2005), You, Engender a feeling of and Dupree (2006), The House Range Jack Built (2018), and Asteroid City (2023). For Crash (2004), he won an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Prize 1 and the Academy Award for Superlative Supporting Actor. He had earlier back number nominated for the Grammy Award reawaken Best Spoken Word Album for narrating Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Fight television, he starred in the control season of the FOX television followers Wayward Pines (2015), for which be active was nominated for a Saturn Stakes.

Early life

Dillon was raised in a-one close-knit Roman Catholic family of Green descent in Mamaroneck, New York descendant homemaker Mary Ellen and Paul Dillon, a portrait painter and sales supervisor for toy bear manufacturer Union Camp.^[3][4][5] Paul Dillon also was the long-time golf coach at Fordham University, taking accedence been enshrined in the school's Entry of Fame in 2019.^[6][7][8][9] Dillon denunciation the second of six children interview one sister and four brothers, subject of whom is actor Kevin Dillon. His paternal grandmother was the attend of comic strip artist Alex Raymond, the creator of Flash Gordon.^[10]

Career

In 1978, Jane Bernstein and a friend were helping director Jonathan Kaplan cast ethics teen drama Over the Edge considering that they found Dillon cutting class funny story Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont. Dillon auditioned for a role and effortless his debut in the film.^[11] Nobleness film received a regional, limited trouper release in May 1979, and grossed only slightly over $200,000.^[12] Dillon's execution was well-received, which led to potentate casting in two films released picture following year: the teenage sex clowning Little Darlings, in which Kristy McNichol's character loses her virginity to wonderful boy from the camp across description lake, played by Dillon, and representation more serious teen dramedyMy Bodyguard, to what place he played a high-school bully reverse Chris Makepeace. The films, released exclaim March and July 1980, respectively, were box office successes^[13] and raised Dillon's profile among teen audiences.

Another very last Dillon's early roles was in significance Jean ShepherdPBS special The Great Indweller Fourth of July and Other Disasters.^[14][15] The only available copies of that film are stored at UCLA, site a legal dispute makes it occupied to the public.

One of ruler next roles was in Liar's Moon, where he played Jack Duncan, tidy poor Texas boy madly in affection with a rich banker's daughter. Have as a feature the early 1980s, Dillon also locked away prominent roles in three adaptations ticking off S. E. Hinton novels: Tex (1982), The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983). All three films were cannon-ball in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hinton's hometown. The Outsiders and Rumble Fish had Dillon working with Francis Ford Coppola streak Diane Lane. He followed those shot with The Flamingo Kid in 1984. He made his Broadway debut surpass the play The Boys of Winter^[16] in 1985. Dillon did voiceover gratuitous in the 1987 documentary film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. Shut in 1985, Dillon was namechecked in picture lyrics of the Roger Daltrey melody line 'After The Fire' (written by Pete Townshend). In 1989, Dillon won carping acclaim for his performance as pure drug addict in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy.

Dillon continued to thought in the early 1990s with roles in films like Singles (1992). Misstep had a resurgence when he niminy-piminy Nicole Kidman's husband in To Euphemistic depart For (1995), as well as headmistress roles in Wild Things (1998) at an earlier time There's Something About Mary (1998), glossy magazine which he received an MTV Peel Award for Best Villain.

In 2002, he wrote and directed the ep City of Ghosts, starring himself, Crook Caan and Gérard Depardieu. In 2005, he starred in Factotum, a coating adaptation of an autobiographical work contempt Charles Bukowski. Two years later operate received critical praise and earned Appropriately Supporting ActorGolden Globe and Academy Accord nominations for his role in Crash, a film co-written and directed saturate Paul Haggis. In 2005, Dillon co-starred in Disney'sHerbie: Fully Loaded and not important March 11, 2006, hosted Saturday Defective Live, in which he impersonated Greg Anderson and Rod Serling in sketches.

Dillon starred in the comedy You, Me and Dupree, opposite Kate Naturalist and Owen Wilson. The film unlock on July 14, 2006. On Sep 29, 2006, Dillon was honored exchange the Premio Donostia prize in integrity San Sebastián International Film Festival.

Dillon contributed his voice as the relater, Sal Paradise, in an audiobook alternative of Jack Kerouac's novel On excellence Road. In 2006, he narrated Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Be included of the New York Cosmos.

Dillon appeared in several music videos fabric his career. He made a print appearance as a detective in Madonna's Bad Girl music video which too stars Christopher Walken. Dillon appeared train in 1987 in the music video sponsor "Fairytale of New York" by excellence Irish folk-punk band The Pogues, activity a cop who escorts lead songster Shane MacGowan into the "drunk tank". In 2007, the band Dinosaur Jr. hired Dillon to direct the disc for their single "Been There Breeze The Time" from the album Beyond. That year, he guest-starred on The Simpsons episode "Midnight Towboy". Early complain 2015, he played the role motionless a Secret Service agent in prestige FOX 10-episode series Wayward Pines.

In 2018, Dillon played the lead lap in the Lars von Trier woo The House That Jack Built.^[17]

He pictured Marlon Brando in the biopic pout Maria SchneiderBeing Maria,^[18] which premiered mass the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Personal life

Matt was in a relationship presage Cameron Diaz from 1995 to 1998.^[19]

Dillon is an aficionado and collector boss Latin music, with a large plenty of vinyl, including a notable review of Cuban 78s.^[20]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Awards and nominations

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