page_title: Matt Dillon
section_title: Filmography
hierarchical_section_title: Matt Dillon / Filmography
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Matt Dillonau festival de Cannes.
context_page_description: Matthew Raymond Dillon is an American actor and film director. He made his feature film debut in Over the Edge and established himself as a teen idol by starring in the films My Bodyguard, Little Darlings, Tex, Rumble Fish, The Outsiders and The Flamingo Kid. From the late 1980s onward, Dillon achieved further success, starring in Drugstore Cowboy, Singles, The Saint of Fort Washington, To Die For, Beautiful Girls, In & Out, There's Something About Mary, and Wild Things. In a 1991 article, famed movie critic Roger Ebert referred to him as the best actor within his age group, along with Sean Penn.
  In the 2000s, he made his directing debut with City of Ghosts and went on to star in the films Factotum, You, Me and Dupree, Nothing but the Truth, Sunlight Jr. and The House That Jack Built. For Crash, he won an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He had earlier been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for narrating Jack Kerouac's On the Road. In 2015, he starred in the first season of the FOX television series Wayward Pines, for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award.
caption: Dillon at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival
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