1. Matt Rippy was born on January 26,1968 and is an American actor, born in St Louis, Missouri and raised in Houston, Texas.
11 Facts About Matt Rippy
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Matt Rippy is most known for the recent Netflix series Gloria, his role as the 'real' Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood in 2007 and his comic stage performances with the Reduced Shakespeare Company.
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Matt Rippy attended the drama department at Houston's prestigious High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and was a member of the Alley Theatre repertory company for three seasons.
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In 1994 Matt Rippy moved to England where he joined the Reduced Shakespeare Company for a record breaking run in London's West End, performing The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, The Complete History of America and The Bible: The Complete Word of God.
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Matt Rippy would continue off and on to perform, direct and help develop new plays with the Reduced Shakespeare Company for the next twenty years.
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Matt Rippy launched his TV and film career in 1995 with a guest appearance on Goodnight Sweetheart with Nicholas Lyndhurst for the BBC.
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Matt Rippy has worked extensively in UK television, including appearances in Cracker, Jonathan Creek, Ultimate Force, Doctors, Holby City, Secret Diary of a Call Girl and The Crown.
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Matt Rippy was in a heterosexual relationship, and was eventually revealed to be attracted to Torchwood's Jack, who after an unfortunate "temporal shift", landed in 1941 during the height of the Cardiff blitz.
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Matt Rippy appears in the films Day of the Dead, Boogeyman 3, Beyond the Sea, The Monuments Men and Black Beauty.
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Matt Rippy starred in the cult B-movie Roboshark released on the SyFy Channel in 2015.
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Matt Rippy is most recently seen as CIA agent James Wilson in the Netflix series Gloria.