Matt Dillon

@School Dropouts, Birthday and Childhood

Matt Dillon is a renowned American actor and film director

Feb 18, 1964

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: February 18, 1964
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: School Dropouts, Film & Theater Personalities, Actors
  • Siblings: Kevin Dillon
  • Known as: Matthew Raymond Dillon
  • Universities:
    • Mamaroneck High School
  • Birth Place: New Rochelle, New York, U.S.

Matt Dillon born at

New Rochelle, New York, U.S.

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Birth Place

Dillon was in a relationship with popular actress, Cameron Diaz, for three long years.

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Personal Life

His younger brother, Kevin Dillon, who has also chosen a career in the entertainment business appears in the famous HBO comedy series, ‘Entourage’.

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Personal Life

Dillon’s grandmother is the sister of famous cartoonist Alex Raymond, the creator of the comic strip ‘Flash Gordon’, ‘Jungle Jim’ and ‘Rip Kirby’.

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Personal Life

Dillon was born in a Roman Catholic family to Mary Ellen and Paul Dillon. He has five siblings: one sister and four brothers.

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Childhood & Early Life

While attending the Hommocks Middle School, he luckily got an offer to work in the teenage movie ‘Over the Edge’ in 1978, his debut film as an actor. He had to drop out from the school for the time being and later he joined the Mamaroneck High School.

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Childhood & Early Life

After making his debut with ‘Over the Edge’, he was offered to work in two more movies in 1980, a comedy, ‘Little Darlings’ and ‘My Bodyguard’, comedy-drama film, both of whom did well at box office.

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Career

His next successful films were ‘The Outsiders’ and ‘Rumble Fish’ in 1983, in which he worked with Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most admired directors in Hollywood.

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Career

In 1989, he was immensely praised for his performance in ‘Drugstore Cowboy’.

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Career

He shot into prominence after acting alongside Academy Award winning actor, Nicole Kidman in the movie ‘To Die For’ in 1995.

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He starred in ‘Wild Things’ and ‘There's Something About Mary’ in 1998 for which he received great critical appreciation.

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Career

He appeared in ‘There's Something About Mary’ (1998) which was a blockbuster and made $3,698,84651 at box-office and he received several awards and nominations for playing a negative role.

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Major Works

His Most successful film by far is the 2004 movie ‘Crash’ which was nominated for six Academy Awards, out of which it bagged three. The film was made with a modest budget of $7 million, but amassed a whopping $98,410,061 at the box-office.

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Major Works