Nineties acting icon Matt Dillon seems to be embracing his later years.
While at the Cannes Film Festival in France this week, the 60-year-old Tex actor was seen with some silver strands in his light brown carefully cut mane.
The actor normally has very dark brown hair, but on Wednesday he looked like he was beginning to welcome a silver fox style.
Dillon was in a dark blazer with a black shirt and gray jeans as he attended the photo call for Being Maria at Palais des Festivals. In the film he plays Marlon Brando.
The New York native has a long and varied career that includes classic like Drugstore Cowboy (1989) and massive hits like There is Something About Mary (1998) which starred his girlfriend at the time, Cameron Diaz.
Matt has also been pulled into the limelight lately as he met with Angelina Jolie when she was at an event for her stage version of The Outsiders; Dillon starred in the movie version of the story in the 1980s.
Nineties acting icon Matt Dillon seems to be embracing his later years. While at the Cannes Film Festival in France this week, the 60-year-old Tex actor was seen with some silver strands in his light brown carefully cut mane
Seen in the left on Wednesday with a light beard and on the right in the 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy
His new film Being Maria is about Maria Schneider’s rise to fame after Last Tango in Paris.
Dillon plays her Tango costar Marlon Brando. Maria is played by Anamaria Vartolomei.
The film in part tracks the controversial production and wrenching fallout of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 masterpiece.
The Academy Award nominee made his film debut in Over the Edge (1979).
Jane Bernstein and a friend were assisting director Jonathan Kaplan cast the teen boy in the drama Over the Edge.
They ran into Dillon ditching class at Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont.
Dillon auditioned for a role and landed it. Dillon’s performance was well-received.
He was also teen when he starred in the classic 1980 film My Bodyguard. He played a high-school bully opposite Chris Makepeace.
Next he worked with Tatum O’Neal in the sex comedy Little Darlings (1980) in which he had scenes with Kristy McNichol.
And then came Liar’s Moon (1982), The Flamingo Kid (1984) and Tex (1982).
By the time he starred in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983) he was a bona fide teen heartthrob.
Dillon was in a dark blazer with a black shirt and gray jeans as he attended the photo call for Being Maria at Palais des Festivals
His hair looked more gray in the back as he wore a tuxedo in Cannes on Tuesday
He will play Marlon Brando in Being Maria; Brando with Eva Marie Saint in a scene from the film On The Waterfront in 1954
He starred as a more gritty character in the edgy Drugstore Cowboy (1989).
The actor played an intense drug addict in the acclaimed Gus Van Sant film.
And he was part of an ensemble with Bridget Fonda in the Seattle-based rom-com Singles (1992).
Matt took on a more mature role opposite Nicole Kidman in To Die For (1995) as he played her character’s husband.
When he was in 1998’s There’s Something About Mary he played against his screen idol type as he donned false teeth to star the dorky cheeseball opposite the insecure everyman played by Ben Stiller.
Matt received an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.
In 2005, Dillon co-starred in Disney’s Herbie: Fully Loaded He then did comedy with You, Me and Dupree opposite Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson in 2006.
In 2018, Dillon played the lead role in the Lars von Trier thriller The House That Jack Built.
Next he worked with Tatum O’Neal in the sex comedy Little Darlings (1980) in which he had scenes with Kristy McNichol, right
In 1983 with Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell and Tom Cruise in The Outsiders for Francis Ford Coppola
He starred as a more gritty character in the edgy Drugstore Cowboy (1989). The actor played an intense drug addict in the acclaimed Gus Van Sant film
The star was part of an ensemble with Bridget Fonda in the Seattle-based rom-com Singles in 1992
When he starred in 1998’s There’s Something About Mary he played against his screen idol type as he donned false teeth. Matt received an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
More recently he has taken smaller roles in quirkier films like Asteroid City (2023).
For Crash (2004), he won an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Proving how well rounded he is, Dillon made a cameo appearance as a detective in Madonna’s Bad Girl music video which also stars Christopher Walken.
From 2014 to 2024 he was in a relationship with Italian actress, dancer and choreographer Roberta Mastromichele.
Matt has also been pulled into the limelight lately as he met with Angelina Jolie when she was at an event for her stage version of The Outsiders, which Dillon starred in the movie version of in the 1980s. Seen in April
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