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Matt Dillon
Actor
Male
Born
Feb 18, 1964
Age
49
Hometown
New Rochelle, New...
Other Names
Dillon, Matthew R...
Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon is an American actor and film director. He began acting in the late 1970s, gaining fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s.
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'Girl Most Likely' Trailer: Kristen Wiig Moves In With Mom (And Darren Criss)MTV News - May 03, 2013
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Tina Turnbow: Face Time With Sunlight Jr.Huffington Post - Apr 29, 2013
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At Tribeca, Big Personalities On The Big ScreenSeattle Pi - Apr 15, 2013
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Caroline Frost: What Does The Sheriff Mean In Modern Tv Shows?Huffington Post - Apr 12, 2013
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CHILDHOOD
1964
Birth
Born on February 18, 1964.
TEENAGE
1978
14 Years Old
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.
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1980
16 Years Old
The films, released in March and July 1980, respectively, were box office successes and raised Dillon's profile among teenage audiences.
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TWENTIES
1984
20 Years Old
He followed those up with The Flamingo Kid in 1984.
1985
21 Years Old
He made his Broadway debut with the play The Boys of Winter in 1985.
1987
23 Years Old
Dillon did voiceover work in the 1987 documentary film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam.
1989
25 Years Old
In 1989, Dillon won critical acclaim for his performance as a drug addict in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy.
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THIRTIES
2002
38 Years Old
In 2002, he wrote and directed the film City of Ghosts, starring himself, James Caan and Gérard Depardieu.
FORTIES
That same year he starred in FactotumActually 2005., a film adaptation of an autobiographical work by Charles Bukowski.
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On September 29, 2006, Dillon was honored with the Premio Donostia prize in the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
2007
43 Years Old
In 2007, the band Dinosaur Jr. hired Dillon to direct the video for their single "Been There All The Time" from the album Beyond.
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2008
44 Years Old
On December 30, 2008, he was arrested by the Vermont State Police after he was clocked traveling at 106 miles per hour northbound on Interstate 91 near Newbury, Vermont.
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His attorney, Mark Kaplan, entered a plea of not guilty on Dillon's behalf in a January appearance in Orange County Court in Chelsea, and also appeared in court on February 25, 2009.
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