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Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon in 2010
BornMatthew Raymond Dillon
(1964-02-18) 18 Februar 1964 (age 60)
New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
ThriftActor, director
Years active1979–present
FaimilyKevin Dillon (brither)

Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born Februar 18, 1964) is an American actor an film director.

Matt Dillon made his featur film debut in Over the Edge (1979) an established himsel as a teen idol bi starnin in films sic as My Bodyguard (1980), Tex (1982), Rumble Fish (1983) an The Outsiders (1983). Fraee the late 1980s onward, Dillon achieved further success, starnin in sic films as 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), an Wild Things (1998). In a 1991 airticle, famed movie creetic Roger Ebert referred tae him as the best actor within his age group, alang wi Sean Penn.[1]

In the 2000s, he made his directin debut wi City of Ghosts (2002) an went on tae starn in the films Crash (2004), Factotum (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), Nothing but the Truth (2008) an Sunlight Jr. (2013). During his career, he earned mony awairds an nominations includin Oscar an Gowden Globe nominations for his performance in Crash an a Grammy Awaird for Best Spoken Wird Album nomination for narratin Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Syne 2015, he haes starned in the FOX telly shaw Wayward Pines, for which he wis nominatit for a Saturn Awaird.

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  1. Ebert, Roger Archived 2012-09-12 at the Wayback Machine, Chicago Sun-times, film review, 26 April 1991.