Matthew Dillon (born in New Rochelle, New York, February 18, 1964) started acting as a teenager in movies like Over the Edge (1979) by Jonathan Kaplan, My Bodyguard (1980) by Tony Bill, Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983) both directed by Francis Coppola, The Flamingo Kid (1984) by Garry Marshall. He acted in Drugstore Cowboy (1989) by Gus Van Sant, Singles (1992) written and directed by Cameron Crowe, The Saint of Fort Washington (1993) by Tim Hunter with Danny Glover, Beautiful Girls (1996) by Ted Demme, In & Out (1997) by Frank Oz with Kevin Kline, There's Something About Mary (1998) by Peter and Bobby Farrelly with Cameron Diaz, Wild Things (1998) with Kevin Bacon, Crash (2005) by Paul Haggis, You, Me and Dupree (2006) by Anthony and Joe Russo, American Dreamer (2022) with Peter Dinklage, Asteroid City (2023) by Wes Anderson. Dillon directed and starred with James Caan in City of Ghosts (2002). On television he acted in Wayward Pines (2015).
