For other people named Matt Dillon, see Matt Dillon (disambiguation).
Matt Dillon
Dillon at the 2010 FICG
Born
Matthew Raymond Dillon
(1964-02-18) February 18, 1964 (age 60)
New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1979–present
Partner(s)
Cameron Diaz (1995–1998) Roberta Mastromichele (2014–2024)
Relatives
Kevin Dillon (brother)[1] Jim Raymond (great uncle) Alex Raymond (great uncle)
Awards
Full list
Matthew Raymond Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an American actor. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award nomination and Grammy nomination.
Dillon 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 five S. E. Hinton book adaptations: 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.[2]
In 2002, he made his directing 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.
^Basilan, Rebelander (December 16, 2019). "Matt Dillon from 'Outsiders' - Meet His Brother Kevin Who Is Also an Actor". AmoMama. AmoMama Media Limited. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
^Ebert, Roger (April 26, 1991). "Review: A Kiss Before Dying". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on September 12, 2012 – via rogerebert.com.
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