Born:
August 19, 1969
in
Williamstown, Massachussetts
Best Known For:
Playing Chandler in Friends.
Early-life:
Matthew Langford Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachussetts, on August 19, 1969, but was raised in Ottawa, Canada. His father is actor John Bennett Perry, while his mother was the press agent for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the 1970s and 1980s. His parents split when he was a baby, and his mother remarried a newsreader. He has several half-siblings. As a teenager he was ranked 17 in national junior tennis competitions. He moved to Los Angeles to live with his father at 15, and gave up sport for acting.
Career:
Perry gave up a place at the University of Southern California when he took a leading role in short-lived TV series Second Chance in 1987. Early films included A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon and She's Out of Control. He didn't become a star until Friends in 1994. Since then, he's attempted to boost his movie career, but unfortunately has made mostly lacklustre films, such as Fools Rush In, Almost Heroes and Three to Tango. He returned to TV in 2006 in Aaron Sorkin's short-lived drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. In 2011 he appeared in US sitcom Mr Sunshine, but it was cancelled after one series. The same thing happened to his latest TV project, Go On.
Quote:
"I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realised it was a way to make girls laugh."
Trivia:
Is the youngest cast member of Friends