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)
