Matthew Perry

Matthew Perry is an American and Canadian film star who shone on the skies of world cinema after appearing in the youth super-sitcom Friends and entrenched in the starry niche with the release of the comedy Nine Yards.

The favorite of millions of TV viewers was born in August 1969 in the American state of Massachusetts, in the city of Williamstown, into an acting and journalistic family. Matthew's mother - Susan Marie - dreamed of a career in the modeling business. Father - John Bennett Perry - managed to gain a foothold in the film industry, but did not achieve star status.

Soon after the birth of their son, the couple separated. Susan returned to her native Ottawa, but did not make a modeling career. The woman got a job as a clerk in the reception of the head of government, Pierre Trudeau, but soon became the prime minister's press secretary.

Susan Marie found personal happiness in her second marriage, by marrying television journalist Keith Morrison. Matthew's father also did not remain lonely for long: John Bennett married actress Debbie Boyle, who gave birth to her husband's daughter Mia. Matthew Perry had a half-brother and three sisters, with whom the future star had to babysit when his mother and stepfather were busy in the service.

Matthew studied at the prestigious Rockcliff Park School in Ottawa, then at an elite private college. At school, Perry became interested in tennis and theater, and for the first time sports interested the guy more than acting: Matthew repeatedly won junior competitions and intended to make a sports career.

To this end, the 17-year-old boy moved to his father in America. But an unfortunate defeat in an important competition put an end to the string of tennis victories.

Matthew Perry focused on his second passion - theater. He attended the Sherman Oaks School of Art (Los Angeles area). Then the cinematic biography of the actor started: Perry starred in the melodrama One Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon. Matthew enjoyed working on the set so much that he never dreamed of anything else.

But his father, who knew about underwater reefs and the currents of the profession, insisted on Matthew's admission to the university. John Bennett set a condition: if during the year the son manages to do without parental financial support, then let him follow the chosen path. Matthew lasted and became an actor, although success did not come to him soon.

In Los Angeles, aspiring actor Matthew Perry appeared on the theater stage, playing prominent roles in the performances Our City, The Sound of Music and The Miracle Worker. The young man's play was seen by the Hollywood diva Patty Duke, in whose piggy bank were Oscars, Golden Globes and Emmy. The star praised the potential of the young colleague, noting Perry's talent for improvisation.

Soon, critics and colleagues Matthew Perry unanimously praised the artist for his subtle acting and lightning-fast response, praising him as a brilliant comedian who knows how to balance on the fine line between buffoonery and wit. These qualities helped Matthew on television: the producers involved the actor in several television shows.

In the mid-1980s, Matthew Perry appeared in the situational comedy Charles in Response and the melodrama Silver Spoons. During these years, the actor thought about entering the University of Southern California, but the offer to star in the series "Second Chance" changed his plans. At the beginning of the project, Perry shared the lead role with a colleague with Kyle Martin, but the feedback from viewers forced the producers to change the format of the series and make Matthew the only key character.

Until the late 1980s, Matthew Perry starred in Dancing Until Dawn, 10 of Us, She's Out of Control, An Empty Nest and Growing Trouble. The last tape is a 7-episode family comedy about the life of the Siver family.

In the 1990s, the demand for Matthew Perry as a comedic actor has increased many times over. He has starred in the comedy series Free from Home, The Empty Nest and Who's the Boss? The last sitcom stretched over 8 seasons and was broadcast on the ABC channel from autumn 1984 to spring 1992.

The name Matthew Perry becomes famous, but the actor's triumph awaited in 1994, when the mega-popular sitcom Friends appeared on the world screens, the main characters of which were played by Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry. He got the image of Chandler Byng - a loser and a bungler, burdened with complexes. The role of Chandler becomes the artist's calling card and takes him to the Hollywood Olympus. Friends were broadcast until 2004, and 10 seasons of the cult sitcom were released.

Since the late 1990s and after the release of the comedy series, Hollywood directors have invited Matthew Perry to star in TV series and feature films. He starred in the comedies "In a hurry - make people laugh" with Salma Hayek, "Almost Heroes" with Chris Farley and "Tango Three". These are full-length films, where the directors exploited the image of Chandler, familiar to millions of Friends fans.

Another resounding success in the career of Matthew Perry - comedy by Jonathan Lynn "Nine Yards". The comedian got the image of the dentist Nicholas "Oz" Ozeranski, whose life went on as long as the former criminal and murderer Jimmy "Tulip" Tadeschi, in whom Bruce Willis brilliantly reincarnated, settled nearby. The comedy was such a success that after 3 years a sequel to the film was released, where the audience again saw their beloved couple.

Between the two films, Matthew Perry starred in the comedy "Rascals" opposite Elizabeth Hurley, the comedy-drama film "Eli McBeal" and the serial political drama directed by "The West Wing". In the latest project, Perry showed the audience that he does an excellent job with both comedic and dramatic roles. He played an employee of the Quincy White House, hitting two Emmy nominations at once.

In 2004, Matthew Perry made his directorial debut in the comedy-drama project Clinic, playing in the 11th episode of the fourth season with his father.

2006 brought the star a new wave of success: the drama "The Story of Ron Clarke" appeared on the big screens, in which the audience saw their favorite artist in the form of a teacher "taming" difficult teenagers. For his work on the project, Perry was nominated for the prestigious Golden Globe and Emmy Awards.

The following works of the actor were rated. In the fall of 2006, the comedy drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was released, which was broadcast on NBC until the summer of 2007. In 2007, fans of Matthew Perry saw an idol in a dramatic form in the feature film Helpless.

Further, the star alternates between comedic and dramatic images. From 2009 to 2016, the legal drama "The Right Wife" was released on CBS. In the projects "Birds of America", "Mr. Sunshine", "Get Started" and "Dad is 17 Again" Matthew Perry starred in the usual comic role. In the comedy film Dad is 17 Again, he played in tandem with Zac Efron.

In 2015, the artist co-authored and produced the comedy series The Strange Couple, playing the key character of Oscar Madison, a slob abandoned by his wife. The second "strange" half was a colleague Thomas Lennon, who appeared in the role of a bore photographer, exiled by his wife. The sitcom is a remake of the series based on the work of Neil Simon in the 1970s and 1980s. The tape was released on screens on the CBS channel and "stretched" over three seasons. Viewers saw the last episodes in May 2017.

Millions of TV viewers around the world fell in love with the charismatic blue-eyed and stately (Matthew's height - 1.83 meters) handsome man with an excellent sense of humor, who came up with puns and witticisms on the fly. It seems Perry's only drawback was the lack of a phalanx of the middle finger on his right hand.

Matthew Perry, who was ranked 7th in the TOP-50 of the most beautiful people on the planet in 1999 by the People magazine in 1999, and celebrity colleagues did not pass by. Rumor has it that the comedian had affairs with Julia Roberts, Lizzie Kaplan, Lauren Graham and Yasmine Blyth. But Matthew is a famous conspirator who knows how to keep his mouth shut. The nosy paparazzi rarely managed to find out at least some details of the star's personal life.

But the increased attention of the female audience to the person of the star did not lead to marriage ties: Matthew Perry, in his almost 50 years, remained an enviable bachelor. He never had an official wife, none of the women with whom he was credited with novels gave birth to children to the star.

In 2015, rumors leaked to the press that Matthew Perry was dating Courteney Cox, who played Chandler's lover Monica in Friends. In November, Courtney parted ways with Irish musician Johnny McDade and found Matthew's friendship and understanding. The tabloids were full of joyful messages that 11 years after the closure of the project, Monica and Chandler teamed up off-screen.

But the romance of the two stars turned out to be just rumors. A week later, an official denial followed: Perry and Cox announced that they had friendly relations, and they were not yet ready for new novels.

In 2016, NBC aired a two-hour program in which the producers gathered the entire cast of the cult sitcom Friends. But the audience was disappointed not to see Matthew-Chandler in the project.

Later, Perry admitted that he refused to participate in the program and would never agree to continue the sitcom, because at 47 he sees himself in a dramatic role, and not in a comedy one. In addition, Perry is busy on the Broadway stage, where he plays the main role in the play according to his script "The End of the Long Wait." He also has a job on the set.

In February 2017, the premiere of the drama The Good Struggle took place, where Matthew got a bright supporting role. The film was presented in Russia in March. Then, in March 2017, fans saw the Hollywood favorite in the dramatic mini-series The Kennedy Clan: After Camelot, where Perry appeared as Edward Kennedy. The image of Jacqueline went to Katie Holmes.

And in 2020, fans were finally able to subscribe to the Instagram of their favorite artist: Matthew registered his own account on this social network. The page even set a kind of record - literally in the first day, the number of subscribers to the star exceeded the one million mark.

1985 - "Charles in the Answer" 1986 - "Silver Spoons" 1988 - "Dancing Till Dawn" 1989 - "Empty Nest" 1989 - "Growth Problems" 1994 - "Friends" 1997 - "Hurry up and make people laugh" 1999 - "Three Tango" "2000 -" Nine Yards "2004 -" The Clinic "2006 -" The Ron Clark Story "2009 -" Daddy's 17 Again "2011 -" Mr. Sunshine "2015 -" Strange Couple "2017 -" Good Fight "

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Matthew Perry Net Worth 2021

Matthew Perry 's revenue is $1.5M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Matthew Perry and could vary in the range between $719.2K - $1.8M.

Matthew Perry Net Worth 2020

Matthew Perry 's revenue is $1.7M in 2020. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Matthew Perry and could vary in the range between $828.3K - $1.1M.

Matthew Perry Net Worth 2019

Matthew Perry 's revenue is $1.1M in 2019. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Matthew Perry and could vary in the range between $827K - $1.2M.

Matthew Perry Net Worth 2018

Matthew Perry 's revenue is $1.1M in 2018. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Matthew Perry and could vary in the range between $969.2K - $1.2M.

Matthew Perry Net Worth 2017

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Matthew Perry Net Worth 2016

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Matthew Perry Net Worth 2015

Matthew Perry 's revenue is $1.4M in 2015. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Matthew Perry and could vary in the range between $890.5K - $1.2M.

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