Biography
Matt Dillon's biography is fascinating and tells about teenage hooligan, which has become a famous actor. Without higher education and basic acting skills, he is known as a talented artist, whose filmography is constantly replenished.Childhood and youth
Matt Dillon was born on February 18, 1964 in New Rochelel, New York. His mother Mary Ellen was a housewife and raised six children - a girl and five boys. Father worked as a sales manager and was fond of drawing portraits. Due to the large number of offspring, a little Matt was not given sufficient education, and he had to grow on the street.
Dillons were Catholics and had Irish roots. By tradition, the family often went to church, but the religious was never. Matt's younger brother Kevin Dillon in the future also became an actor known for the comedy TV series "Handsaws". Uncle on the mother line Alex and Jim were professional artists. So Alex, drawing another comic, came up with superhero Flash Gordon.
The future actor rose a lost boy who could not do anything. He spent all his childhood in the city of Mamaronek. To make money, Matt had to work out by a loader and a champion of newspapers. Despite the lack of effort in school, the teenager successfully passed the exams. He did not go to the higher educational institution and began to build an acting career.
Films
Dillon's film origin began at 15 years old when he noticed director Jonathan Kaplan. He saw the potential in the guy and offered to play the role of a difficult teenager in the film "Through the Edge". The picture narrated the young street guys who grew and brought up under the laws of the street. The guys led a rampant lifestyle, took place in police and did not want to be corrected. According to the law, the director had to be released a guy 4 hours a day for training, a teacher was attended by a teacher who was engaged in Dillon in the breaks.Matt liked such a movie, and he continued to work in this area. So, in 1993, the guy collaborated with the director Francis Koppil and starred in the painting "Rosges", where, together with Tom Cruise and Patrick, Swayze played the role of a member of the street criminal grouping. The audience noticed Dillon after the release of the film "Film Fish", filmed in the same year. His character began to grow James - the leader of the shallow gang of adolescents.
Another significant role of Matt was the French Addict Bobby in a film "Pharmacy Cowboy". The film was removed in 1989 and received a prize at the Berlin Film Festival. The next 9 years have passed without the loud prime minister, and in 1998, the artist received the first award for the best villain in the comedy "Everything's crazy about Mary."
In 2005, the Collision Drama appeared in the cinemas, where Matt played a racist police officer. The artist nominated on the Oscar premiums, the Golden Globe, BAFTA in the nomination "Best Role of the Second Plan", but the victory did not assign him in any of them.
Matt Dillon played the rigs and bad guys, and also quite rarely starred in comedies. So, in 2006, the film "He, I and his friends" came out, where the actor acted as Charles Pieterson. The artist confessed in an interview that he was filmed in the funny paintings for his nephews and niece. He does not want to show the guys tape, where he drinks alcohol, smokes and engaged in group sex.
Dillon was infrequently shot in the comedies to the film "Everything's crazy about Mary," where he worked with the actress Cameron Diaz. Before the release of this picture, the director did not see the comic character in Matt and rarely called on such shooting. But after its adaptation in 1998, the artist began to offer work in humorous film projects. Films "Go beautifully", "Chronicles of Lombard", "Crazy Racing", "so-so vacation" and others.
Matt Dillon was also filmed in erotic ads. The most famous was the painting "Wildness". It was assigned at once 3 Genre: a criminal detective, thriller and erotica. The artist collaborated with Niv Campbell and Deniz Richards. The girls got the role of Lesbian Susie and Kelly, and Dillon became the main character Sam Lombardo.
In 2018, the actor filmography was replenished with a thriller "House that Jack built." At first he wondered as a series. Dillon played the main role of Jack, who became a professional serial maniac for 12 years. Matt almost abandoned the role, reading the script, - many scenes embarrassed him. The painting budget amounted to € 8.7 million. A director of Lars von Trier and Actors of Mad Tourman, Riley Kio and Bruno Ganz worked.
The picture caused a raporary response: the abundance of cruel scenes, regarded by many spectators as a disgusting, sincere acting game and, finally, this is the first film by the director after the clutter of 5 years. Dillon Character is a collective image of serial killers.
About LARS von Treier Matt responded as a man, carefully belonging to his actors - they are "the most important component of his films." After many hours of discussions, the composition of the film crew has achieved a blatant truth. The image and actions of the killer were so real that the audience just got up and left without waiting for the titles. "Violence on the screen should be uncomfortable," Dillon expressed his opinion.
In addition to acting, Matt tried himself as director. For the first time in 1999, he removed one episode of the series "Prison Oz". In 2002, Dillon worked on the full-length picture "City of Ghosts", where he played in the lead role. Picture scenario Man wrote with Barry Gifford.
The shooting of the film "Proksima" was held in the suburbs, in a star town, with real equipment for the training of astronauts. According to the story of the heroine Eve Green prepares for flight to Mars. On the ground, a woman remains daughter. Matt Dillon's character Mike Shannon supports an unfortunate woman forced, in addition to exhaustive training, to cope with contradictory emotions. The picture of the audience was presented in 2019.
A friend of Gangster, ahead of time released from prison as a state of health, Dillon became in a criminal biography "Capon: face with a scar". Tom Hardy played the main role of the famous criminal. The paintings have mixed reviews and a low rating, but the cast and the quality of the filming are shiny. Director Josh Tank admitted that "could watch this film twice a day before the end of life."
Personal life
In 1996, Matt had an affair with actress Cameron Diaz. After filming the comedy "Everything's crazy about Mary", the artists diverged. Later in an interview with Dillon told that the girl was a muse for him. The collapse of the couple he explained the distance from the distance: "She lived in Los Angeles, and I am in New York, and I did not want to move from there."
Rumors appeared that now Matt meets with actress Robert Mastromishel. In her instagram account there is a joint photo with Dillon, dated February 2021. Signature says: "Happy Birthday, Favorite." There are no children from the actor.
A man leads his account in "Instagram", regularly caught his photo, but it's hard for them to understand what is happening in his personal life and how the artist is engaged in in addition to work. Occasionally, pictures showing how he was in his youth. Dillon growth 179 cm, in some sources it is indicated 175 cm and even 183 cm.
Maitt's main hobby - music. The artist plays on the impact tools and collects vinyl records.
Matt Dillon now
The actor took part in the filming of the drama "Seconds of Pleasure". The picture tells that nothing happens in the world. Airplane, six pairs, intertwing character stories - an emotional search for a goal for which it would be worth living.Filmography
- 1979 - "Through the Edge"
- 1983 - "Film Fish"
- 1983 - "Relief"
- 1989 - "Pharmacy Cowboy"
- 1993 - "Mr. Miracle"
- 1998 - "Everything's crazy about Mary"
- 1998 - "Wildness"
- 2004 - "Collision"
- 2006 - "He, I and his friends"
- 2018 - "House that Jack built"
- 2019 - "Proksima"
- 2020 - "Capone: face with a scar"