Matt Dillon

Matt Dillon is an American actor, born the February 18th 1964 with New Rochelle, New York (the United States)

Youth

Born in a family from six children, Matt passes a turbulent childhood and very early acquires a reputation of “hard” which will become a constant of the majority of its roles. It is hardly fourteen years old when it is located in the corridors of its college by the agent of casting Vic Ramos, of which it will make its business manager.

Beginning of career

In 1979, he interprets its first role in Violences on the city . After having given up its studies, it follows courses of theater during Lee Strasberg to the Actors Studio and continuous to assume roles of bad lot, an image which continues with Outsiders followed by Rusty James , of Francis Ford Coppola.

Consequently, the proposals flow, and Matt Dillon is not long in becoming impossible to circumvent among the young wolves of Hollywood, it is auxiliary member of the Brat Pack.

After a turning by the thriller Target 1985, the young wolf of Hollywood is seen offering by Gus Van Sant a new role of rebel, that of Bob, the junkie of Drugstore Cowboy in 1989.

Career of actor

The Portland cement scenario writer will call new upon the actor six years to later incarnate the too humble husband of a Nicole Kidman lends to all. If one finds it as a musician grunge in Singles (1992) of Cameron Crowe, Dillon gets busy during the Nineties to put at evil the image of revolted fop who threatened to stick to him to the skin.

Psychopathe in a kiss before dying (1991), it camps a marked teacher of rape in Sexcrimes and a shady in Albino alligator , the first realization of Kevin Spacey in 1996.

Showing an amusing autodérision, Matt Dillon creates soon the surprise while turning in a series of delirious comedies: actor with the long teeth in In & out , it incarnates for the Frères Farrelly a low detective of the face in love with Cameron Diaz (the cultissime Mary at all costs , 1998), before succumbing to the charm of divine but dangerous the Liv Tyler.

In 2005, Dillon makes a come-back noticed on the screens: racist cop in search of redemption in Collision , it interprets (18 years after the composition of Mickey Rourke which was another enfant terrible of the Eighties, in Barfly of Hank Chinaski), the double arts person of Charles Bukowski ( Factotum ).

Career of director

Being located in margin of the star system, it passes in 2002 off behind the camera with City Ghosts , whodunnit whose action is at the Kampuchea.

Catalog of films

1979 : Violences on the city ( Over the Edge ), of Jonathan Kaplan
1980: Little Darlings , of Ronald F. Maxwell
1980: My Bodyguard , of Tony Bill
1981: Gunmen' S Blues , of Eric Red (short-measuring)
1982: The Great American Fourth off July and Other Disasters , of Richard Bartlett (TV)
1982: Tex , of Tim Hunter
1982: There is always hope for those which like ( Liar' S Moon ), of David Fisher
1983: Outsiders ( The Outsiders ), of Francis Ford Coppola
1983: Rusty James ( Rumble Fish ), of Francis Ford Coppola
1984: Kid of the beach ( The Flamingo Kid ), of Garry Marshall
1985: Target , of Arthur PEN
1985: Rebel , of Michael Jenkins
1986: Native Sound , of Jerrold Freedman
1987: Gains It ( The Big Town ), of Ben Bolt
1988: Kansas , of David Stevens
1989: Drugstore Cowboy , of Gus van Sant
1989: Bloodhounds off Broadway , of Howard Brookner
1991: has KIS Before Dying , of James Dearden
1991: Women & Men 2: In There Are No Rules Coils, of Walter Bernstein and Mike Figgis (TV)
1992: Individual , of Cameron Crowe
1992: Malcolm X , of Spike Lee
1993: the Saint of Manhattan ( Holy The off Fort-Washington ), of Tim Hunter
1993: Mr. Wonderful , of Anthony Minghella
1994: Golden Spoils , of John Madden
1995: Lends to all ( To Die For ), of Gus van Sant
1995: Frankie Starlight , of Michael Lindsay-Hogg
1996: Beautiful Girls , of Ted Demme
1996: Grace off My Heart , of Allison Anders
1996: Albino Alligator , of Kevin Spacey
1997: In & Out , of Frank OZ
1998: Sexcrimes ( Wild Things ), of John McNaughton
1998: Mary at all costs ( There' S Something Butt Mary ), of Bobby and Peter Farrelly
1999: Madonna: Video The Collection 93:99 , of David Fincher (video) (segment Bad Girl )
2001: Divine but dangerous ( One Night At McCool' S ), of Harald Zwart
2002: Deuces Wild , of Scott Kalvert
2002: City off Ghosts , of Matt Dillon
2004: Employed off the Month , of Mitch Rouse
2004: Collision ( Crash landing ), of Paul Haggis
2005: Loverboy , of Kevin Bacon
2005: Factotum , of Bent Hamer
2005: the Ladybird returns ( Herbie: Fully Loaded ), of Angela Robinson
2006: You and me… and Duprée ( You, me and Dupree ), of Russo Anthony and Joe

External bond

Matt Dillon on Internet Movie Database

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