Matt Dillon
American actor
- Born February 18, 1964
- 7 movies
Matt Dillon is an American actor who made his film debut in Over the Edge and became a 1980s fixture in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. He won an Independent Spirit Award for Drugstore Cowboy, played the scheming Pat Healy in There's Something About Mary and earned Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for Crash. He also directed City of Ghosts and led The House That Jack Built.
Matt Dillon appears in 7 films in The Rerun, from 1983 to 2026. Most of that work is in crime, drama and comedy. Frequent collaborators in The Rerun: Peter Farrelly (2), Francis Ford Coppola (2), Nicolas Cage (2), S. E. Hinton (2), Tom Waits (2).
Known for
- Crash (2005), Officer John Ryan. A bigoted Los Angeles cop, earning Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.
- The Outsiders (1983), Dallas Winston. The toughest of the Greasers in Coppola’s S. E. Hinton adaptation.
- Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Bob Hughes. Leads Gus Van Sant’s drama about pharmacy robbers, winning an Independent Spirit Award.
- There’s Something About Mary (1998), Pat Healy. A sleazy private eye in the Farrelly brothers’ comedy.
- Rumble Fish (1983), Rusty James. A restless young street fighter in Coppola’s black and white drama.
Movies
In the news
Film · Canada
In theatres · CA US · 9 Oct to 25 Nov
Fall Films Worth Leaving the House For
Ten theatrical releases from now to late November, with Canadian dates checked against each distributor, so the big-screen nights go to the films built for them.
Casie Stewart · 5 min read
Festivals · Canada
In theatres · CA · La Bola Negra from 23 Oct, Netflix 2 Dec
TIFF’s Winners, and When to See Them
TIFF's 2026 winners are reaching Canadian screens on very different schedules: here is when each one arrives, and which still have no date.
Catherine Crowe · 5 min read
Quick answers
- What movies and TV shows has Matt Dillon been in?
- Matt Dillon appears in I Play Rocky (2026), Crash (2005), There’s Something About Mary (1998), Wild Things (1998), To Die For (1995), Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983) on The Remote.
- When was Matt Dillon born?
- Matt Dillon was born on 18 February 1964.
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