1. Matt Bomer's works have earned him accolades including a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
54 Facts About Matt Bomer
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Matt Bomer graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
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In 2005, Matt Bomer made his film debut in the thriller Flightplan, then in 2007 gained recognition with his recurring role in the NBC television series Chuck.
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Matt Bomer had supporting roles in the 2011 thriller In Time, the 2012 comedy-drama Magic Mike and its 2015 sequel, and the 2016 neo-noir film The Nice Guys.
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Matt Bomer made a guest appearance on the fourth season of FX's horror anthology series American Horror Story, and was upgraded to the main cast for its fifth season.
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Matt Bomer has since starred as Larry Trainor in the Max series Doom Patrol and a closeted World War II veteran in the miniseries Fellow Travelers.
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On stage, Matt Bomer starred in the Dustin Lance Black play 8 on Broadway, and at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles as Jeff Zarrillo, a plaintiff in the federal case that overturned California's Proposition 8.
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Matthew Staton Bomer was born in Webster Groves, Missouri, to Elizabeth Macy and John O'Neill Bomer IV.
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Matt Bomer has a sister, Megan, and a brother, Neill, who is an engineer.
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Matt Bomer is a distant cousin to American singer Justin Timberlake.
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Matt Bomer's family is of English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Swiss-German and French descent.
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Matt Bomer was raised in Spring, Texas, and attended Klein High School; he was a classmate of Lee Pace and Lynn Collins.
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In high school, Matt Bomer played wide receiver and defensive back for his school's football team before deciding to concentrate on acting.
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Matt Bomer appeared in a 1998 production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Romeo and Juliet at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, Utah.
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Matt Bomer received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in drama at Carnegie Mellon University in 2000.
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In 1999, Matt Bomer worked as a bartender while spending a year living in Galway, Ireland.
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Shortly after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, Matt Bomer moved to New York City.
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Matt Bomer played Ben Reade, a character connected to several core families on the show.
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When Matt Bomer left the show in 2003, his exit was controversial; Ben was suddenly revealed to be a male prostitute and serial killer.
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In 2003, Matt Bomer returned to theatre to star in a Powerhouse Theater production of Paul Weitz's play Roulette in New York.
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Matt Bomer acted in his first television film Amy Coyne ; he played the role of Case.
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Matt Bomer's first leading role was in the series Traveler, along with Logan Marshall-Green, Aaron Stanford and Viola Davis, a short-lived midseason replacement television series which premiered on ABC on May 30,2007, the series tells the story of two graduate students, become suspected of terrorism after a skateboarding race inside a museum.
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Matt Bomer had a supporting role in the NBC action comedy spy-drama Chuck.
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In 2007, Matt Bomer took on the role of Ernest Hemingway in a Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Crispin Whittell's play Villa America in Massachusetts, starring in it with Jennifer Mudge and Nate Corddry.
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Matt Bomer won a People's Choice Award at the 2015 ceremony.
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Additionally, Matt Bomer produced 19 episodes of White Collar along with costar Tim DeKay.
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In September 2011, Matt Bomer starred in Dustin Lance Black's play, 8, a staged re-enactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Proposition 8.
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In 2011, Matt Bomer was cast as a 105-year-old man in Andrew Niccol's science fiction thriller film In Time, starring alongside Justin Timberlake.
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Matt Bomer studied with a group called Hollywood Men in Los Angeles to prepare for the role.
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Magic Mike was a critical and commercial success and Matt Bomer's performance was praised.
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Matt Bomer's voiceover earned him an invitation to the Behind the Voice Actors Awards in 2013.
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Matt Bomer's first release of the year, Winter's Tale, was a romantic and supernatural fantasy drama, written and directed by Akiva Goldsman, and based on Mark Helprin's novel Winter's Tale.
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Matt Bomer's performance was praised by a reviewer for The Hollywood Reporter, who considered his acting as the highlight of the production.
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Matt Bomer plays the son of Iris and the lover of the Countess.
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Matt Bomer played for the first time a villain in the movie The Nice Guys, as a psycho killer named John Boy.
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Gosling and Matt Bomer were at the film's premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016.
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Matt Bomer was cast as Monroe Stahr, the lead in Billy Ray's 2016 series The Last Tycoon, loosely based on the F Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same name, along with actors Kelsey Grammer, Lily Collins, and Dominique McElligott.
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Matt Bomer made a voice-only and uncredited appearance as a narrator of a crime docuseries in Roanoke.
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Matt Bomer has received some criticism from the transgender community for the casting of a cisgender man, to play a transgender woman.
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Also in 2017, Matt Bomer was a guest narrator at Disney's Candlelight Processional.
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In 2018, Matt Bomer began working on his directorial debut on series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.
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Matt Bomer had other opportunities to direct before but always wanted to wait for the optimum chance to immerse himself in a project.
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Matt Bomer found a part in a 2018 revival of the Mart Crowley play The Boys in the Band, which was staged at Booth Theatre and marked his Broadway debut.
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Matt Bomer's role was that of a detective who appears in only one scene of the film.
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In Viper Club, Matt Bomer played Sam, a journalist who helps Helen, to save her son who was kidnapped by a group of terrorists.
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In 2020, Matt Bomer portrayed Jamie Burns on the USA Network anthology series The Sinner.
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In 2023, Matt Bomer executive produced and portrayed Hawkins Fuller on the Showtime miniseries Fellow Travelers.
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Matt Bomer joined the cast of the Academy Award for Best Picture nominated film Maestro in March 2022 where he played the role of David Oppenheim and starred alongside Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan.
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Matt Bomer was the list's highest-ranked man and second only to Jennifer Lawrence.
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Matt Bomer publicly came out as gay in 2012, when he thanked his partner and their children during an acceptance speech for his Steve Chase Humanitarian Award.
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Also in 2012, Matt Bomer was given an Inspiration Award for his work at the GLSEN Awards.
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Matt Bomer had married publicist Simon Halls in 2011; the marriage became public through the media in 2014.
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Matt Bomer has been practicing Transcendental Meditation since his early 20s; in 2013 he spoke of his support for the work of the David Lynch Foundation.
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In 2018, Matt Bomer campaigned for Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke in the US Senate election in Texas.