Matthew Perry is an American-Canadian actor, and screenwriter who is very popular for his comic role on the famous sitcom ‘Friends’. The actor is quite active in the entertainment industry with various professions as he also works as an executive producer, voice-over artist, and screenwriter. Perry as an actor has worked in several tv shows and movies like 17 Again, The Whole Nine Yards, Almost Heroes, and Fools Rush In. However, he is widely popular as ‘Chandler Bing’ from the NBC sitcom ‘Friends’. Perry worked in the sitcom for 10 years from 1994 to 2004. The sitcom was so popular that he along with his fellow main characters of the sitcom were paid $1 million USD per episode by 2002.
Similarly, Perry also worked as a voice artist for a video game ‘Fallout: New Vegas’ as Benny in 2010. As an executive producer, actor, and writer he worked in the ABC sitcom ‘Mr. Sunshine’. Besides, his appearance in sitcoms like Go On for NBC and The Odd Couple for CBS are very popular.
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Matthew Perry: Early Life, Education, and Family
Perry was born as Matthew Langford Perry to his parents Suzanne Marie Morrison and Pierre Trudeau on 19 August 1969 in Williamstown, Massachusetts. During his childhood, he spent a lot of his time with his mother in Ottawa as his parents divorced before he was even one year old. Talking about his parents, his father, ‘Pierre Trudeau’ was is a Canadian journalist and former Canadian Prime Minister. Likewise, his mother was an actress and model. Perry has altogether 5 siblings: Willy Morrison, Mia Perry, Emily Morrison, Caitlin Morrison, and Madeleine Morrison. Similarly, talking about his educational qualification, McCain attended Ashbury College for his education. Before that, he attended The Buckley School at the age of 15 to learn acting.
Matthew Perry: Career and Achievements
The actor initiated his acting career in the year 1987 with the sitcom ‘Second Chance’ which later became ‘Boys Will Be Boys’. Two years later he did three episodes of the American Sitcom ‘Growing Pains’. After that, he tried to give an audition for the American television sitcom ‘the pilot’ which later became ‘Friends’. However, he already was committed to working as one of the main characters in the 1994 TV sitcom ‘LAX 2194’. Thus he could not give an audition for ‘the pilot'(Friends) initially. After some time when he met the pilot’s directors and producers, he got a reading. Hence, they choose him for playing the character of ‘Chandler Bing’. Eventually, the sitcom changed to ‘Friends’ and became a huge success.
Talking about his achievement, Perry got a 2002 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Then he did several movies like ‘Fools Rush In’ ‘Almost Heroes’, ‘Serving Sara’, ‘Three to Tango’, and ‘The Whole Nine Yards’. Eventually, in 2004 ‘Friends’wrapped up, and Perry did his first direction with an episode of the American comedy-drama ‘Scrubs’ season 4. Perry since then was actively working in the entertainment field and was not in the limelight for some time until 2017. In 2017, Perry played the character ‘Mike Kristeva’, in the CBS drama show ‘The Good Fight’, a sequel of ‘The Good Wife’. The same year he played in ‘The Kennedys: After Camelotthe’ as ‘Ted Kennedy’.
Caption: Perry with his Friends cast
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Matthew Perry: Personal life and girlfriend
Perry is currently single the moment after splitting with his fiance ‘Molly Hurwitz’. The reason for their split is not available at the moment. Perry was once in a very romantic relationship with the beautiful American actress ‘Lizzy Caplan’. the former couple dated each other for 6 years from 2006 to 2012. Similarly, some of the girls the actor dated in the past are ‘Yasmine Bleeth’ and ‘Julia Roberts’.
Caption: Perry with his ex-fiance Molly Hurwitz
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Matthew Perry: Net Worth and social media
According to Business Insider, the actor has a total net worth of $80 million US dollars by the year 2018. His main source of income is his profession as an actor, executive producer, and screenwriter. Similarly, talking about his social media availability, he is available on Instagram as mattyperry4. Likewise, Perry is also accessible on Twitter as MatthewPerry. Perry has 7.3 million followers on Instagram and more than 1.5 million followers on Twitter.
Matthew Perry: Body measurements
The 53-year-old producer is very beautiful to look at. She holds charming facial features, dazzling brown eyes, and has fair skin. Additionally, he stands 1.83 meters tall and weighs around 82 kgs. Besides, her other body measurements are 44-34-38
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