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What is Matt Dillon's Net Worth?

Matt Dillon is an American actor, director, producer, and writer who has a net worth of $40 million. Matt Dillon was cast in the 1979 film "Over the Edge" when he was 14, and he has gone on to appear in more than 60 films and television shows.

Today Matt is best known for films such as "The Outsiders" (1983), "The Flamingo Kid" (1984), "Drugstore Cowboy" (1989), "Singles" (1992), "Wild Things" (1998), "There's Something About Mary" (1998), and "Crash" (2004). He played Ethan Burke on the Fox series "Wayward Pines" in 2015. Dillon wrote, directed, and starred in the 2002 film "City of Ghosts," and he produced and directed the 2020 documentary "The Great Fellove." He also narrated the audiobook of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," which earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album in 2001.

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Early Life

Matt Dillon was born Matthew Raymond Dillon on February 18, 1964, in New Rochelle, New York. His mother, Mary Ellen, was a homemaker, and his father, Paul, was a portrait painter who also worked as a sales manager for toy bear manufacturer Union Camp. Matt grew up in a Roman Catholic household in Mamaroneck, New York, with five siblings, Kevin, Brian, Timothy, Katy, and Paul.Kevin Dillonis an actor best known for the HBO series "Entourage." Dillon attended Hommocks Middle School, and while cutting class one day, he was discovered by Jane Bernstein, who was helping director Jonathan Kaplan cast the film "Over the Edge."

Career

After his 1979 debut in "Over the Edge," Matt soon appeared in the films "My Bodyguard" (1980), "Little Darlings" (1980), and "Liar's Moon" (1982) and the 1982 TV movie "The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters." In 1982, he appeared in his first S.E. Hinton adaptation, playing the title role in "Tex," followed by "The Outsiders" and "Rumble Fish" in 1983. Dillon then starred in 1984's "The Flamingo Kid and 1985's "Target" and "Rebel," and he co-starred withOprah Winfreyin the 1986 drama "Native Son." He starred in a 1985 Broadway production of "The Boys of Winter" and played Robert "Bob" Hughes in the critically-acclaimed 1989 film "Drugstore Cowboy." In the early '90s, Matt starred in the films "A Kiss Before Dying" (1991), "Fishing with John" (1991), "Mr. Wonderful" (1993), and "The Saint of Fort Washington" (1993), and he played grunge musician Cliff Poncier inCameron Crowe's"Singles" in 1992. He co-starred withNicole KidmanandJoaquin Phoenixin 1995's "To Die For," then he appeared in "Grace of My Heart" (1996), "Albino Alligator" (1996), "Beautiful Girls" (1996), and "In & Out" (1997). In 1998, Dillion starred in "Wild Things" and co-starred withBen StillerandCameron Diazin "There's Something About Mary," which grossed $369 million against a $23 million budget.

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