Matt Rippy
Age: 56 | From: Houston, Texas, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1968-01-26 00:01:58
Aliases: Matthew Damon Rippy , Matthew Rippy
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Houston, Texas, USA
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Movie Involvements: 15
TV Involvements: 5
Most Famous Work
Biography
Matt Rippy, is an American actor, born in Houston, Texas. He is most known for his role as the 'real' Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood in 2006. He also appears in the films Day of the Dead and Boogeyman 3. In 1994, Rippy moved to England and was a member of the theatre group the Reduced Shakespeare Company. In a recent television appearance, Rippy portrayed the namesake of Jack Harkness of Torchwood in the first series' twelfth episode Captain Jack Harkness. In the episode, Captain Jack (Rippy) was a young American volunteer serving as an RAF Group Captain stationed in Cardiff. He 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. Matt Rippy also starred in the fourth series of Ultimate Force, in the final episode, "Slow Bomb". He appeared in an episode of the BBC's Bonekickers on 29 July 2008. He appeared in episode 4, "The Cradle of Civilisation" as an illegal looter of Babylonian artefacts. In 2008 Rippy appeared in The Dark Knight, as the first mate aboard a hostage ship of convicts, as a newscaster in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and in a brief cameo role in Penelope starring Christina Ricci. In 2010, he appeared as a Punter named "Jesse", in the premiere of the third season of Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Rippy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
The Crown
(2016) US Intelligence Officer
Ransom
(2017) Dylan Figgis
Torchwood
(2006) The Captain
The Dark Knight
(2008) First Mate
Cracker
(1993) American Comedian
A Very British Scandal
(2021) Charles Sweeny
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
(2016) Corporal Rostock
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
(2008) NewscasterActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Charles Sweeny | |
| 2017 | USS Flynn Captain | |
| Dylan Figgis | ||
| 2016 | Corporal Rostock | |
| US Intelligence Officer | ||
| John F Kennedy | ||
| US Anchorman | ||
| 2015 | Rick | |
| 2014 | Terry | |
| Colonel Gregg | ||
| FBI Lead Agent Simmons - Dearborn | ||
| 2009 | Harrison | |
| 2008 | Kane | |
| First Mate | ||
| Newscaster | ||
| N/A | ||
| Doctor Logan | ||
| 2007 | Jesse | |
| 2006 | Molloy | |
| The Captain | ||
| Lt. Jack 'Tex' Wheelis | ||
| 2005 | Lieutenant Mercer | |
| N/A | ||
| 2004 | David Gershenson | |
| 2001 | Agent Allright | |
| 1997 | Bronson Peterman | |
| 1993 | N/A | |
| American Comedian | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
