BIOGRAPHY:
Matthew Lyn Lillard
Height: 6'3"
Weight:175 pounds
Hair Color: Light Brown
Eye Color: Blue green
Birthdate: January 24, 1970 (Aquarius)
Age: 29
Born: Lansing, Michigan
Hometown: Tustin, California
Pets: "Mirth" -- a german shorthair pointer mix
Moved: To Pittsburgh, PA when 6 mo. old.
An apartment complex called Pennsbury Village outside of Crafton.
To Detroit, Michicgan when 3 1/2 years old.
Attended a cooperative nursery school for two years.
To Brighton, Michigan when 5 yrs. old.
Started kindergarden at the Brighton Elementary School.
To Tustin, California in Orange Co., CA (1 hr. S. of L.A.) at the end of the first semester of 1st grade.
Attended Tustin Public Schools until his graduation from Foothill High School.
*Was the Class Clown Throughout School
Siblings: Younger Sister -- Amy
Status: Engaged
Music Listens to: Notorious B.I.G. and Wu Tang Clan among others.
First Kiss:Kelly Sawyer in 7th Grade. Playing spin the bottle. She spun; it pointed to him. "She totally stuck her tongue down my throat." in Matt's own words.
Fast Love:8 Years ago -- Christine Taylor (Marcia Brady from the Brady Bunch movies). Did a show together. Fell in love and broke up fast. She dumped him.
Likes: To get and send flowers.
Funny, Charming, and Bright Ladies
Plays Chess and Dungeons & Dragons
Dislikes: Pessimists and Slackers.
Sports: Loved and played Soccer in Elementary School. Was Goalie for most of his AYSO soccer teams from 3rd grade until High School.
Motivation: In High School, was 5'7" tall and "fat" in his own words. As a result of his lack of height, he found the stage and began acting.
First Play: In the 8th Grade -- Speech Class presentation of "Greed For Gold." Matt played the villain. From that night forth, Matt has wanted to act.
First Professional Appearance:
The summer after graduating form High School. Hired as extended extra on "Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go To College" a direct to video movie.
This led to his first onscreen line which led to his SAG card, which in turn, led to an agent! Good job, Matt!
Television Job:
In November of '89, chosen as the M.C. of Nickelodeon's "SK8 TV."
School's Attended:
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
in Pasadena, CA around 1989.
Circle in the Square
Theatrical School in NY, for 2 years.
Other well-known Circle alumni include Kevin Bacon, Mili Avital (Stargate), Robert Picardo (holographic doctor on Star Trek:Voyager), Jonathan LaPaglia (NY Undercover, UPN's 7 Days) and Greg Shamie
(Off-Broadway's recent smash "Shakespeare's R & J", Law & Order) as well as the girl in the "Well, THAT was interesting" VW commercial, and the
guy in the "he drove his new Saturn so many thousands of miles that we had to replace the butt cushion on the driver's seat" commercial.
Theater Companies Formed:
MEAN STREETS ENSEMBLE
He and best friend Dalton Grant begin ensemble theater company.
First production was "Tracers" which opened July 4th, 1991.
Ensemble was successful for 12 months until internal politics caused it to faulter. After Matt left, it ultimately failed.
THE SUMMONERS ENSEMBLE
Been around for about 5 years. Based in New York.
Last performance Matthew did with them was "G.O.D." which was written by fellow founding Summoner Bill Rehor (who wrote the movie SPANISH JUDGES, which Matthew just filmed)
BLUE SPHERE ALLIANCE
Currently involved with. Did "Reach" through this. "Reach" was written by William Rehor and his brother.
First Manager: Bill Treusch
Met him during a production of "A Child's Christmas in Wales."
With Bill's help, guidance, and friendship, Matt landed his first movie role after only 3 auditions! It was as Chip in SERIAL MOM.
Films:
GHOULIES GO TO COLLEGE (1991)
VANISHING SON IV (1994)
Made for Television
SERIAL MOM (1994)
ANIMAL ROOM (1995)
RIDE FOR YOUR LIFE (1995)
TARANTELLA (1995)
MAD LOVE (1995)
HACKERS (1995)
IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK (1996)
Made for Cable
SCREAM (1996)
DEVIL'S CHILD (1997)
WITHOUT LIMITS (1998)
THE CURVE (aka DEAD MAN'S CURVE) (1998)
SENSELESS (1998)
TELLING YOU (1998)
SLC PUNK! (1998)
DISH DOGS (1998)
WING COMMANDER (1999)
THE SPANISH JUDGES (1999)
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST (1999)
SHE'S ALL THAT (1999)
Television:
SK8 TV (1989)
Hosted this Nickelodeon show
THE PROM KING
Played Dalton
BLOOD BROTHERS
Played Steve
NASH BRIDGES (Feb. 14th, 1997)
Guest Appearance in "Gunplay" episode.
MTV Movie Awards (June 12th, 1997)
Went up with `Scream' cast to accept award for Best Picture.
Motel California on MTV (June 30th, 1997)
Guest VJ with Kennedy
Devil's Child (October 24, 1997)
Starred in ABC television movie
Miscellaneous Info:
Matt was hired once to do an episode of "Cybil," where he was to be Christine Baranski's son. However, he and the writers disagreed as to how the character should be played, so he was released. He's just as happy that it happened that way, as things have gone quite well, to understate things!
He did a couple of pilots in his life. One for Tom Fontana of HOMOCIDE fame, called "In the Line of Fire."
He also did a pilot for the people who created "My So Called Life," that pilot was called "The L Word." Excellently written and cast, underwritten by NBC but never picked up thanks to Don Ohlmyer.
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