Birth Name: Matthew Langford Perry
Height: 6' 1''
Nationality: American
Date: August 19, 1969
Birth Place: Williamstown, Massachusetts
Occupation: actor
Education: Buckley School (private high school in Sherman Oaks, California)
Ashbury College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Relationship: Jamie Tarses (executive; reportedly dated in 1998), Julia Roberts (actress; 1995-1996), Yasmine Bleeth (actress)
Claim to fame: as Chandler Bing in the NBC comedy Friends

Facts about Matthew Perry:

Was one of the most powerful celebrity according to 2003 Forbes Top 100 Celebrity List (#25)

Perry says he suffered from opening-night jitters when he stepped on stage in London, where he's starring in David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago. (June 21, 2003)

Matthew Perry, Halle Berry and Mike Myers make it into the top 30 of Forbes magazine's Celebrity 100, lining up on Hollywood's most important annual rich list for the first time. (June 19, 2003)

Recliners designed by the cast of NBC’s FRIENDS were auctioned off to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Monroe -- The chairs fetched a total of $125,000 on eBay. (June 9, 2003)
Perry is setting the London social scene alight just two years after battling back from painkiller and alcohol addictions – The actor is currently in the British capital starring alongside Minnie Driver and Hank Azaria in West End comedy SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO. (June 6, 2003)

Perry successfully battled his problems with prescription drugs but doesn't think it means he has a strong character -- The actor believes that surrendering to his addictions rather than resisting them was the key to his recovery. (May 6, 2003)
FRIENDS stars - Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc - have designed their own reclining chairs for a charity auction for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. (April 23, 2003)

Perry will make his professional stage debut in May toplining a London revival of Sexual Perversity in Chicago, David Mamet's chronicle of life on the carnal warpath in 1970s Chicago. (February 11, 2003)

This week, Perry signed a deal to star with Robin Tunney (THE CRAFT) in the indie drama FEVER, which is described as ''the story of a couple who are shocked out of the predictability of their relationship by an event that challenges them to either love more deeply or lose each other for good.” (December 12, 2002)

Along with other FRIENDS co-stars, Perry will be one of the presenters at the September 22nd Emmy Awards (September 17, 2002)

Perry stunned onlookers who spotted him passionately kissing actress Rose McGowan at a New York nightspot.

He attended Ashbury College, a private boys' school in Ottawa, Canada.

(4 June 1997) It was reported that Perry has checked into a a drug rehab center suffering from chemical dependency on a prescription medication.

His mother, Suzanne Morrison, was press agent for the Prime Minister of Canada during the seventies and eighties (Pierre Trudeau).

He dated Julia Roberts.

(June 2000) Matthew asked that his name be removed from the Best Actor in a Comedy Emmy list. FRIENDS co-stars have all agreed that they would only be nominated in supporting roles.

(27 February 2001) He entered a rehabilitation clinic for treatment of an undisclosed condition.

(18 April 2001) A 75 year old woman ran a stop sign and smashed into the side of Matthew's BMW. Neither party was injured.

(2002) FRIENDS (1994) castmate Jennifer Aniston offers to be his personal trainer after he received threats from bosses Warner Brothers about his increasing weight problems

The Steve Bing - Elizabeth Hurley debacle has taken a bizarre new twist as Bing hints him is the father of Liz's unborn baby, according to internet reports.

Actor Matthew Perry forced FRIENDS bosses to cut out a line from the script which made fun of his expanding waistline.
Is still in a Los Angeles hospital after his flu developed into severe stomach cramps.

Much like his character Jimmy says about Matthew Perry's character Oz, Bruce Willis has stated in interviews that although it surprised him, he actually couldn't help liking Matthew Perry and they now are very good friends

Originally offered the role of Captain Jimmy Raven Wilder in INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996) but pulled out at the last minute. His father John Bennett Perry plays a secret serviceman. The scenes in the Stealth Bombers used sets from Broken Arrow

When Oz (Matthew Perry) realizes that his neighbor is a hitman, he flashes back to a series of newspaper headlines and magazine covers about Jimmy the Tulip. One magazine cover features a seated Bruce Willis in an expensive suit smoking a cigar, with the caption, Conversation With a Contract Killer. The shot matches a scene in THE JACKAL, in which Willis plays a high-end contract killer.

When he first goes to Amy's apartment in THREE TO TANGO (1999), she asks him Are you always this nervous? This is the same question 'Willis, Bruce' asks him when they first go for a car ride in THE WHOLE NINE YARDS (2000). Both times the response is yes.

While mowing his lawn in THE WHOLE NINE YARDS, Oz wears a t-shirt with the logo of the Ottawa Senators. Matthew grew up in Ottawa, Ontario.

Was ranked 17th internationally for junior tennis.

He was back in rehab in 2001 for addiction to prescription painkillers

Was nominated SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2000 for FRIENDS.
Perry has joined friends co-stars Courteney Cox Arquette, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc in suggesting the finale of the sextet's next season might not be their last after all.

Perry is in New York to promote his new movie, SERVING SARAH, a sort of road comedy with Elizabeth Hurley as a wealthy Texas wife who doesn't want her husband to divorce her (Perry plays the process server), touched upon the serious.

He is laughing off reports of a romance with his friend Jennifer Capriati but thinks every man should have a pal like the tennis champ.

Says he was driven to success by primarily one thing: A craving to be famous.