
Photo: Matt Dillon (Guadalajara) 4.jpg: Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara derivative work: MyCanon (talk) / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Matt Dillon is my favorite kind of movie star: the one who quietly became a character actor without losing his leading-man presence. Emerging from New Rochelle as a teenage idol, he could have settled for handsome-rebel roles forever; instead he kept choosing risk, playing villains charming enough to win an MTV Movie Award in 1999 and earning the Donostia Award in 2006 for a career of real substance. He directs and writes too, which tells me he studies film rather than just appearing in it. Decades in, he still feels authentic — weathered, unhurried, and never once embarrassing to root for.
Overview
Matt Dillon is a actor from United States.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Matt Dillon
- Name (Japanese)
- マット・ディロン
- Reading
- まっと・でぃろん
- Born
- February 18, 1964 (age 62)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Dragon
- Origin
- New Rochelle, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / film director / screenwriter / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Mamaroneck High School
- University
- Compton College
Awards & achievements
- 2006 Donostia Award
- 1999 MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Actor — see all → · Film actor — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.