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Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an American actor and film director. He began his acting career in the late 1970s and quickly rose to fame as a teenage idol in the 1980s. Dillon made his feature film debut in Over the Edge (1979) and gained recognition with roles in My Bodyguard (1980), Little Darlings (1980), and The Outsiders (1983).
As his career progressed, he took on more diverse roles, starring in critically acclaimed films such as Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Singles (1992), There's Something About Mary (1998), and Crash (2004), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Known For

The Simpsons
1989

The Daily Show
1996

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

Modern Family
2009

Saturday Night Live
1975

The View
1997

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

The Oscars
1953

Wayward Pines
2015

The Outsiders
1983

Crash
2005

High Desert
2023

Asteroid City
2023

There's Something About Mary
1998

Wild Things
1998

Herbie Fully Loaded
2005

Deuces Wild
2002

Going in Style
2017

Beautiful Girls
1996

Takers
2010

The House That Jack Built
2018

Rumble Fish
1983

My Bodyguard
1980

Capone
2020

Drugstore Cowboy
1989

Nimic
2020

To Die For
1995
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