Matt Dillon

Date of Birth: February 18, 1964
Place of Birth: New Rochelle, New York, USA

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Originally a teen star (generally in "troubled youth" roles), who has since matured into one of Hollywood's most enjoyable actors to watch on screen with a wonderful versatility in his acting range, tall, lean and handsome Matt Dillon was born in February 1964 in New Rochelle, New York, and was discovered by pure chance. Talent scouts were roaming the halls of Hommocks School, spied the good-looking Dillon, and asked him to attend a casting call. He showed up, put on a swagger and petulant attitude for the casting director and landed his first film role, appearing in Over the Edge (1979), a "troubled-youth" film about bored Colorado teenagers fighting developers, their parents and the police. His next role was as a teen bully who gets his comeuppance in the "feel-good" movie My Bodyguard (1980). He was the object of teenage female desire in Little Darlings (1980), and followed that as a poor boy eloping with a rich girl in Liar's Moon (1982).

Dillon was now a hot property, and his next three film roles were in quality productions of best selling novels by author S.E. Hinton that cemented him as the US' #1 teen star. First he starred as a fatherless country boy in Tex (1982), then he headlined a cast of superb young actors, including Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze, in the moving The Outsiders (1983), and finally he was back in trouble once more in the superb Rumble Fish (1983).

As his looks matured, Dillon moved into broader roles such as the smooth-talking Brooklyn teenager conning everyone at a posh Florida country club in The Flamingo Kid (1984). He made his first foray into adult action with Gene Hackman in the thriller _Target (1985/I)_ , followed by several B-grade romantic efforts, before striking gold with the critics with his performance in the uncompromising 'Gus van Sant' film about drug addicts, Drugstore Cowboy (1989). Unfortunately, his next few films fell back into a degree of mediocrity until another intriguing performance as a young schizophrenic in The Saint of Fort Washington (1993), then another romantic comedy role in Mr. Wonderful (1993). He worked again with van Sant as naive husband Larry Maretto opposite murderous Nicole Kidman in the icy thriller To Die For (1995).

Dillon remained busy and turned in excellent performances in the sexy thriller of murder and double-crosses, Wild Things (1998). He was hilarious as a sleazy private eye lovestruck by Cameron Diaz in the box-office smash There's Something About Mary (1998). He starred in the black comedy One Night at McCool's (2001), made his feature film directorial debut with City of Ghosts (2002), had a day that goes from bad to worse in Employee of the Month (2004), and a minor role in the Canadian film Crash (2004).

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Eye color:	Brown
Height:	6' (1.83m)
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Family:	Mother: Mary Ellen Dillon Father: Paul Dillon Brother: Paul Dillon Jr. (1962) Brother: Kevin Dillon (1965) Sister: Katy Dillon (1966) Brother: Timothy Dillon (1969) Brother: Brian Dillon (1972)
Resides in:	New York, NY USA
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Personal interests/hobbies:	Likes to run in Central Park, NY. Visits flea markets for deals Loves Cuban music
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Other:	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).

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Twil1ght

Who's in charge of Matt Dillon's photo?? Its been the same f o r e v e r ! Plus, its from about 1984!!! Can someone please update it...I think he's getting better looking with age :-)

posted 63 days ago
sweetshawdon07

hello que tal,bello mi amor besos eres unos de mis actores favoritos me encantas como trabajas todo tu asi que mil felicitaciones que dios te vendiga y te ilumine el camino siempre se te quiere desde venezuela tqm bye bye...cuidate besos...

posted 185 days ago
sewluvdsnotions

you were so so so awesome in the outsiders thats the book i am reading now in english

posted 202 days ago
LittleMan2358

you did a good job in the moive in the outsiders

posted 247 days ago
spunkylilangel29

You are great, I've watched you become a wonderful actor over the years, You were so cute in "Over the Edge", then what a knock out in "Little Darlings", loved that movie and I agree with the actress' super nice butt. The Outsiders was way too COOL. Keep it real and keep em coming.

posted 455 days ago
madcat612

dally in tha outsiders

posted 531 days ago
nuchi1

i love you matt in rumble fish...:*:*:*:*: ;)

posted 612 days ago
FairyGirl030609

your awesome.. =)

posted 616 days ago
NaZzEmoKitty604

absolutely love him(:
especially in The Outsiders.. naww, pretty much just The Outsiders. i mean.. oohkay maybe not. I dunno. but yeahh, DALLY is ahmazing. Tex was good too. i didn't get to see the "whole" movie yet thoughh.. gay internet..

posted 654 days ago
kallyak15

wow, you were born the year of the Great Alaska Earth Quake.

that was a BIG BIG BIG Earth Quake, and we haven't had a super big one up here yet...

You are one of my favorite actors... the first movie I saw you in, was The Outsiders. You did great in that movie =)

posted 749 days ago

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Bone Deep (Unrated, 2010)
Takers (Unrated, 2010)
Armored (Armoured) (PG-13, 2009)
Old Dogs (PG, 2009)
Nothing But the Truth (R, 2008)
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (Unrated, 2007)
Factotum (R, 2006)
You, Me and Dupree (PG-13, 2006)
Once in a Lifetime (Unrated, 2006)
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (PG-13, 2006)

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