Matt Dillon
Gender: Male
Born: 18th February 1964 (currently 48 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Simpsons, Modern Family, Fishing with John
Movies: Albino Alligator, Beautiful Girls, City of Ghosts, Crash, Drugstore Cowboy, Employee of the Month, Grace of My Heart, My Bodyguard, One Night at McCool's, Rumble Fish, Singles, The Flamingo Kid, The Outsiders, There's Something About Mary, To Die For, Wild Things, You, Me and Dupree, Loverboy, Factotum, In & Out, Kansas, Mr. Wonderful, Women & Men 2, Golden Gate, The Big Town, A Kiss Before Dying, Over the Edge, Tex, Nothing but the Truth, Target, Liar's Moon, Rebel, Old Dogs, Takers, Bloodhounds of Broadway, Armored, Frankie Starlight, Glick Doesn't Do Red Carpet: Jiminy Glick at the Independent Spirit Awards, Deuces Wild, The Saint of Fort Washington, Native Son, Little Darlings, Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story, Seconds of Pleasure, Fish Gun, Herbie: Fully Loaded, The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters, Target, Imogene
Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and film director. He began acting in the late 1970s, gaining fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s.
Matthew Raymond Dillon was born in New Rochelle, New York, to second-generation Irish American parents Mary Ellen, a homemaker, and Paul Dillon, a portrait painter and sales manager for Union Camp, a packing material manufacturer. He was raised in a close-knit Roman Catholic family as the second of six children. Dillon's paternal grandmother was the sister of comic strip artist Alex Raymond. Dillon has one sister and four brothers, one of whom, Kevin Dillon, is also an actor, and appears on the hit TV series Entourage which has earned him several Emmy nominations in the supporting actor comedy category. Dillon grew up in Mamaroneck, New York, and before dropping out in junior year, he attended Mamaroneck High School.
In 1978, Jane Bernstein and a friend were helping director Jonathan Kaplan cast the violent teen drama Over the Edge when they found Dillon cutting class at Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont. Dillon auditioned for a role and made his debut in the film. The film
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