1. Matthew Langford Perry was an American and Canadian actor.
75 Facts About Matthew Perry
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Matthew Perry gained international fame for starring as Chandler Bing on the NBC television sitcom Friends.
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Matthew Perry played a leading role in the NBC series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and became known for his leading film roles in Fools Rush In, Almost Heroes, Three to Tango, The Whole Nine Yards, Serving Sara, The Whole Ten Yards, and 17 Again.
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Matthew Perry was co-creator, co-writer, executive producer, and star of the ABC sitcom Mr Sunshine, which ran from February to April 2011.
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Matthew Perry co-developed and starred in a revival of the CBS sitcom The Odd Couple portraying Oscar Madison from 2015 to 2017.
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Matthew Perry had recurring roles in the legal dramas The Good Wife, and The Good Fight.
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Matthew Perry portrayed Ted Kennedy in The Kennedys: After Camelot and appeared as himself in his final television appearance, Friends: The Reunion.
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Matthew Perry voiced Benny in the video game Fallout: New Vegas.
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For most of his life, Matthew Perry suffered from severe addictions to drugs and alcohol.
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In 2013, Matthew Perry received the Champion of Recovery Award from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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In 2023, Matthew Perry died from the acute effects of ketamine use.
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Matthew Langford Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, on August 19,1969.
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Matthew Perry's mother, Suzanne Marie Morrison, is a Canadian journalist who was press secretary to Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
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Matthew Perry's parents separated when he was a year old, and his mother married Canadian broadcast journalist Keith Morrison.
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Matthew Perry was mostly raised by his mother in Ottawa, Ontario, but he lived briefly in Toronto and Montreal.
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Matthew Perry attended Rockcliffe Park Public School and Ashbury College, a boarding school in Ottawa.
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Matthew Perry stole money, smoked, let his grades slip, and beat up fellow student and future Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.
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Matthew Perry later attributed his behavior to his feeling like a family outsider who no longer belonged, once his mother began having children with Morrison.
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Matthew Perry practiced tennis, often for 10 hours per day, and became a top-ranked junior player in Canada with the possibility of a tennis career.
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At 15, Matthew Perry began studying acting at the Buckley School, a college-preparatory school in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, from which he graduated in 1987.
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Matthew Perry's first credited role was a small part in 240-Robert in 1979 as a child actor.
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Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, Matthew Perry started auditioning for roles.
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Matthew Perry made guest appearances on Not Necessarily the News in 1983, Charles in Charge in 1985, and Silver Spoons in 1986.
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Matthew Perry made his film debut in 1988 with A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.
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Matthew Perry was cast as a regular on the 1990 CBS sitcom Sydney, playing the younger brother of Valerie Bertinelli's character.
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Matthew Perry played the starring role in the ABC sitcom Home Free, which aired in 1993.
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Matthew Perry appeared in films such as Fools Rush In, Almost Heroes, Three to Tango, The Whole Nine Yards and its sequel The Whole Ten Yards, and Serving Sara.
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Matthew Perry appeared as attorney Todd Merrick in two episodes of Ally McBeal.
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Matthew Perry starred in the TNT movie The Ron Clark Story, which premiered August 13,2006, and received a Golden Globe and Emmy nomination for his performance.
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Matthew Perry played Matt Albie alongside Bradley Whitford's Danny Tripp, a writer-director duo brought in to help save a failing sketch show.
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In 2006, Matthew Perry began filming Numb, a film based on a man suffering from depersonalization disorder.
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In 2008, Matthew Perry starred in the independent film Birds of America.
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In 2009, Matthew Perry starred in the film 17 Again playing a 37-year-old man who transforms into his 17-year-old self after an accident.
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In 2009, Matthew Perry was a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, when he presented Ellen DeGeneres with an Xbox 360 video game console and a copy of the game Fallout 3.
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Matthew Perry played the lead role as a middle-aged man with an identity crisis.
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Matthew Perry portrayed Ryan King, a sportscaster who tries to move on after the death of his wife through the help of mandatory therapy sessions.
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Matthew Perry reprised his role in the fourth season in 2013.
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In 2014, Matthew Perry made his British TV debut in the one-off comedy program The Dog Thrower, which aired on May 1 as part of Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents.
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Matthew Perry portrayed "a charismatic man" who enchanted onlookers by throwing his dog in the air.
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From 2015 to 2017, Matthew Perry starred in, co-wrote, and served as executive producer of a reboot of the sitcom The Odd Couple on CBS.
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Matthew Perry played Oscar Madison opposite Thomas Lennon as Felix Unger.
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Matthew Perry played the lead role in the world premiere production of his play The End of Longing, which opened on February 11,2016, at the Playhouse Theatre in London.
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Matthew Perry restructured the play and appeared alongside Jennifer Morrison in its second off-Broadway production, which opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on June 5,2017.
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In March 2017, Matthew Perry again reprised his role as attorney Mike Kresteva in The Good Fight, a sequel show to the CBS drama The Good Wife.
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Matthew Perry was meant to have a role in Don't Look Up, but withdrew in 2020 because of CPR-induced broken ribs.
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Matthew Perry published a memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, in October 2022.
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Matthew Perry dated Yasmine Bleeth in 1995, Julia Roberts from 1995 to 1996, and Lizzy Caplan from 2006 to 2012.
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In November 2020, Matthew Perry became engaged to literary manager Molly Hurwitz.
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Residences owned at some point by Matthew Perry included a condo in Sierra Towers purchased from Elton John, a house in Hollywood Hills, a house in Malibu, and a cottage in Pacific Palisades.
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In June 2023, Matthew Perry purchased a mid-century modern house in Hollywood Hills.
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Matthew Perry had a perfectionist and obsessive personality, spending many hours perfecting his answering machine message.
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Matthew Perry believed in God, with whom he had "a very close relationship", calling himself "a seeker".
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Matthew Perry became addicted to Vicodin after a jet ski accident in 1997, and completed a 28-day rehab program at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation that year.
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Matthew Perry's weight dropped to 128 pounds as he took as many as 55 Vicodin pills per day.
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Matthew Perry's castmates made efforts to help him, and staged an intervention, but were unsuccessful.
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In February 2001, Matthew Perry paused productions of Friends and Serving Sara for two months so that he could enter in-patient rehabilitation for his addictions to Vicodin, methadone, amphetamines, and alcohol.
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Matthew Perry said later that, due to his substance use disorder, he had no memory of three years of his work on Friends.
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In 2018, Matthew Perry spent five months in a hospital for a gastrointestinal perforation.
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Matthew Perry spent two weeks in a coma and used a colostomy bag for nine months.
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Matthew Perry was connected to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine.
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Two years later, while attending rehab in Switzerland, Matthew Perry faked pain to get a prescription for 1,800 milligrams of hydrocodone per day and was having daily ketamine infusions.
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Matthew Perry was given propofol in conjunction with a surgery, which stopped his heart for five minutes.
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Matthew Perry paid $175,000 for a private jet to take him to Los Angeles to get more drugs.
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When doctors there refused, Matthew Perry spent another $175,000 to take a private jet back to Switzerland.
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In July 2011, Matthew Perry lobbied the United States Congress as a celebrity spokesperson for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals in support of funding for drug courts.
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Matthew Perry received a Champion of Recovery award in May 2013 from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy for opening Perry House, a rehab center in his former mansion in Malibu.
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In 2015, Matthew Perry sold the mansion and relocated its services.
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On October 28,2023, Matthew Perry was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his home in Los Angeles.
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Matthew Perry was pronounced dead at 4:17pm the same day.
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On November 3,2023, Matthew Perry's funeral was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles where he was buried.
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The Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush song "Don't Give Up" was played; Matthew Perry was enamored with the song and referenced it in signed copies of his autobiography, released in part to help people suffering from depression or addiction issues.
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On December 15,2023, Matthew Perry's death was revealed to have occurred due to acute effects of ketamine.
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Matthew Perry had been receiving ketamine-assisted psychotherapy sessions to treat anxiety at the time of his death, his last known session of which having been the week prior to his death.
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In May 2024, an investigation was opened by the Los Angeles Police Department to determine how Matthew Perry obtained the high dose of ketamine that caused his death.
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Iwamasa admitted to obtaining ketamine for Matthew Perry and injecting him with the drug, while Fleming admitted to obtaining the ketamine from the supplier and giving it to Iwamasa for Matthew Perry to use.