Matt Dillon Biography

Matt Dillon is an American actor and film director. He began acting in the late 1970s gaining fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s appearing in films such as Little Darlings (1980) My Bodyguard (1980) Tex (1982) Rumble Fish (1983) The Outsiders (1983) Drugstore Cowboy (1989) Singles (1992) Beautiful Girls (1996). In 2013 he will appear in the comedy film The Art of the Steal as an art thief alongside Kurt Russell. In 1990 he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for Drugstore Cowboy and in 2006 won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for Crash and the San Sebastin International Film Festival Donostia Lifetime Archievement Award. Crash won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2005. In 1978 Jane Bernstein and a friend were helping director Jonathan Kaplan cast the violent teen drama Over the Edge when they found Dillon cutting class at Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont. Dillon auditioned for a role and made his debut in the film.The film received a regional limited theatrical release in May 1979 and grossed only slightly over $200000.

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