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Matt Dillon - Biography
The film career of Matt Dillon (New Rochelle, New York, 1964) has spanned more than three decades. From Francis Ford Coppola's films The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, to his collaboration with Gus Van Sant on Drugstore Cowboy, for which he won an Independent Spirit Award in 1990, and To Die For (1995), which he screened with the director in Locarno in 1995, his path has been punctuated by titles such as Singles (Cameron Crowe, 1992), Crash (Paul Haggis, 2004), for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and won his second Independent Spirit Award, but also Factotum (Bent Hamer, 2005), The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018) and the short film Nimic (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2019), which was presented at Locarno72. In 2002 he made his directorial debut with City of Ghosts (2002), written with Barry Gifford, in which he starred opposite James Caan, Gérard Depardieu, Stellan Skarsgård, and Natascha McElhone. In 2014 he starred in Chad Hodge's television series Wayward Pines (2015-2016) with M. Night Shyamalan among the executive producers, while soon to be released is the Apple series High Desert, directed by Jay Roach, which features him opposite Patricia Arquette. Dillon also recently completed his second feature film as director with El Gran Fellove (2020), a music documentary about legendary Cuban singer Francisco Fellove.
He has been a board member of Refugees International since 2008 and has participated in missions to Myanmar, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, making short documentaries to raise awareness of the plight of refugees and internally displaced people due to conflict and climate change.
Dillon comes from a family of artists and is himself a painter. His works have been exhibited in New York, Rome and Berlin.
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