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Matt Dillon was born on February 18, 1964 in New Rochelle, New York. He is the Second oldest of five boys and one girl. His family has been described as a tight-knit Irish Catholic family. His father Paul was a stockbroker and his mother was a homemaker. |
| Matt has been acting since his first debut in his fourth grade play as Benjamin Franklin. When he was fourteen, a casting director was doing some scouting and ha saw Matt. Matt had been skipping math class in the halls of Larchmont's Hommocks School. |  |
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When director Vic Ramos interviewed him, he knew that he had the right kid play to play the part of a bully in the movie "Over the Edge." When Matt got home to tell his parents that he had gotten a part in the movie "Over the Edge" that some brothers were making little did he know that they were the Warner Brothers. |
| When Ramos was talking to Matt about the movie Matt's first words out of his mouth were, do I get my carfare back? When Ramos had asked him what he thought about himself he said that he is a thief. |  |
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