Matthew Perry : Biography

Matthew Langford Perry was born on August 19, 1969 in Williamstown, Massachusetts but raised in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the only child of Suzanne and John Perry, who were divorced when he was less than a year old. Perry's dad is known as the guy in the Old Spice commercials. Perry's mom is a former Canadian TV anchor and onetime press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Perry is a tennis-lover. He started at the age of 4 and became No.2 player in Ottawa. Perry began acting in seventh grade when he played a gunslinger named Arriba Arriba Geneva in his Ashbury College production of a play called The Life and Death of Sneaky Fitch. His mother married Canadian anchorman Keith Morrison (NBC newscaster) when Perry was 10 and proceeded to have four more children: Caitlin(1981), Emily(1985), Willy(1987), and Madeline(1989). At 15, Perry moved to L.A. to test his tennis and acting skills. He moved in with his father, John's second wife, Debbie, and their daughter Marie. He was prepared for his first big U.S. tennis match. Unfortunately, things didn't go well so Perry decided to pursue an acting career instead. His favorite hot beverage is coffee with cream and two equals And he also likes to play ice hockey and softball.

Matthew Perry : Career

In 1985, Perry starred as George Gibbs in the 1985 Buckley School production of Our Town. At 16, Perry got his first big break from a waitress in a San Fernando Valley restaurant. She gave him a napkin with a note written on it by a director who had spotted Perry while dining. Perry auditioned and won a small role in the 1988 River Phoenix film A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon. After his graduation, Perry had intended to enroll at the University of Southern California, but when he was offered a leading role on the television series "Boys Will Be Boys," he seized the opportunity to begin his chosen career. His other TV-series credits include regular roles on "Home Free" and "Sydney" as well as a recurring part on "Growing Pains." He guest-starred on such series as "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Who's the Boss?", "The Tracey Ullman Show," "Empty Nest" and "The John Larroquette Show." In 1993, Perry and good friend Andrew Hill Newman decided to write their own sitcom, Maxwell's House, which was about the lives of twentysomething friends. But NBC already had a similar sitcom in the works. This sitcom was later known as Friends. In 1994, Perry auditioned for the show and got the part of Chandler Bing. Matthew did a lot of TV movies, like "Deadly Relations," "Call Me Anna" and "Dance 'til Dawn." Among his feature films are "A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon," "She's Out of Control," "Parallel Lives" and the movies "Fools Rush In" , "Edwards and Hunt: The First American Road Trip", "Three to Tango", "The whole nine yards" and "Serving Sarah". Matthew that dated Yasmine Bleeth, Julia Roberts, Jamie Tarses, Reene Ashton and Gabrielle Bober now is sigle and lives alone in a three bedroom Hollywood Hills home in Los Angeles, spread with 100cm screen TV and drives a black porshe 911.

Matthew Perry : Films

Charity Jam (TV) (2005), The Beginning of Wisdom (2004), The Whole Ten Yards (2004), Serving Sara (2002), Disney's The Kid (2000), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), Three to Tango (1999), Almost Heroes (1998), Fools Rush In (1997), Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide (1995), A Day with (TV) (1995), Getting In (1994), Friends (TV Series) (1994), Parallel Lives (TV) (1994), Deadly Relations (TV) (1993), Home Free (TV Series) (1993), Call Me Anna (TV) (1990), Sydney (TV Series) (1990), She's Out of Control (1989), A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), Dance 'Til Dawn (TV) (1988), Second Chance (1987)