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Also known as Matthew Raymond Dillon

American actor

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Matt Dillon is a person from Germany who began his work period in 1979. Born on February 18, 1964, he is associated with the musical artist profile on Last.fm, which lists 326 listeners and 3,081 plays. His professional output includes five works according to Crossref records.

Open Library data identifies Matt Dillon as an author with one listed work, *The schoolmaster, parent and pupil*, alongside the title *The Flamingo Kid*. The subject is referenced by 729 other encyclopedia articles in the Vinony graph.

Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Instance of
human
Given name
Matt
Family name
Dillon
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
New Rochelle
Occupation
film director
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Image
Matt Dillon 2010.jpg
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Commons category
Matt Dillon
date of birth
1964-02-18
start of work period
1979-00-00
different from
Matthew Dillon
writing language
English language
birth name
Matthew Raymond Dillon
unmarried partner
Cameron Diaz
handedness
left-handedness
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Encyclopedic overview

Matthew Raymond Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an American actor. He has received various accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and two Independent Spirit Awards alongside nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Grammy Award.

Dillon 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 achieved further success, starring in Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Singles (1992), The Saint of Fort Washington (1993), To Die For (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996), In & Out (1997), There's Something About Mary (1998), and Wild Things (1998). In a 1991 article, movie critic Roger Ebert referred to him as the best actor within his age group, along with Sean Penn.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Matt Dillon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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