Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an American actor and film director. He began his acting career in the late 1970s and quickly rose to fame as a teenage idol in the 1980s.

In the early '80s, there were few young actors dreamier than Matt Dillon. With his distinctive combination of a distincitve bone structure, a perfect pout and strong brows, the rising star won over ...

The actor rocked salt-and-pepper hair and stubble on the red carpet Catherine Santino is a Style Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She began as a contributor for PEOPLE in 2022 and joined the staff full-time ...

EXCLUSIVE: Author Jack Kerouac set an ambitious task for himself when he pondered writing On the Road, his 1957 masterpiece that still reverberates in the American imagination. “My purpose is to ...

Last spring, the actor Matt Dillon and artist Jesper Just started a conversation over currywurst outside of a former World War II bunker in west Berlin. It was during the opening of Dillon’s painting ...

Although Taylor Sheridan has transformed the landscape of Western TV over recent years, the iconic CBS series Gunsmoke still reigns supreme as the greatest show in the genre’s history. The show couldn ...

The actor rocks a futuristic leather look for the luxury accessories brand Catherine Santino is a Style Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She began as a contributor for PEOPLE in 2022 and joined the staff ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Actor Matt Dillon, a longtime Woodstock Film Festival supporter, has designed the official 2024 Woodstock Film Festival poster. Dillon, known for such diverse films as “Crash,” “Wild ...

Exclusive: Anamaria Vartolomei stars as the late Schneider in Jessica Palud's biopic. Matt Dillon portrays Schneider’s “Last Tango in Paris” co-star Brando, with Giuseppe Maggio as Bertolucci. Yvan ...