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Matt Dillon
Matthew Raymond Dillon is an American actor. He 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 the four S. E. Hinton book adaptations: Tex (1982), Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983). From the late 1980s onward, Dillon ac…
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entertainment · American actor (born 1964) · actor · film actor · film director · screenwriter · television actor · also Matt Dillon, Matthew Raymond Dillon, Dillon
Born 18 February 1964 · Q193070
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Island review – Matt Dillon’s moody clarinetting sums up exotic Greek idyll thriller
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2023· 1 entry
Was part of the ensemble cast in Wes Anderson's comedy Asteroid City
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Matt Dillon's still ready to rumble: 'I have never lived a sheltered life'
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2018· 1 entry
Dillon played the lead role in the Lars von Trier thriller The House That Jack Built
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2015· 1 entry
Played the role of a Secret Service agent in the FOX 10-episode series Wayward Pines
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2006· 3 entries
Dillon was honored with the Premio Donostia prize in the San Sebastián International Film Festival
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Awarded Donostia Award (2006).
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Narrated Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
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2005· 2 entries
Starred in Factotum, a film adaptation of an autobiographical work by Charles Bukowski
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Dillon co-starred in Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded and on March 11, 2006, hosted Saturday Night Live, in which he impersonated Greg Anderson and Rod Serling in sketches
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2002· 2 entries
Made his directorial 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)
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Wrote and directed the film City of Ghosts, starring himself, James Caan and Gérard Depardieu
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for There's Something About Mary (1999).
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1989· 1 entry
Dillon won critical acclaim for his performance as a drug addict in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy
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1987· 1 entry
In the music video for "Fairytale of New York" by the Irish folk-punk band The Pogues, playing a cop who escorts lead singer Shane MacGowan into the "drunk tank"
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1985· 1 entry
Dillon was namechecked in the lyrics of the Roger Daltrey song 'After The Fire' (written by Pete Townshend)
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1978· 1 entry
Jane Bernstein and a friend were helping director Jonathan Kaplan cast the teen drama Over the Edge when they found Dillon cutting class at Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont
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1964· 1 entry
Born 1964-02-18.
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