•Full Name: Matthew Langford Perry

•Occupation: Actor. Matthew plays Chandler on friends: the witty, sarcastic, totally lovable guy who just couldn't seem to do well with women--until Monica came along. :)

•Birthday: August 19, 1969

•Hometown: Matthew was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, but raised in Ottawa, Ontario.

•Family: Matthew's parents are Suzanne Langford and John Bennett Perry; he is their only child. His parents remarried and he has 5 step-brother and sisters; Caitlin, Emily, Willy, Madeline and Marie.

•Career Highlights:

Flim:
Servicing Sara (2001)
Disney's The Kid (2000)
The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
Three to Tango (1999)
Almost Heroes (1998)
Fools Rush In (1997)
Getting In (1994)
Parallel Lives (1994) She's out of Control (1989)
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)

Television:
Friends (1994- )
Second Chance (1987)
Sydney (1990)
Deadly Relations (1993)
Home Free (1993)
Call Me Anna (1990)
Dance 'Til Dawn (1988)

Writer Filmography:
Imagining Emily (1999)

Notable Television Guest Appearances:
"Saturday Night Live" (1997) playing "Himself"
"Caroline in the City" (1995) playing "Chandler Bing" in episode: "Caroline and the Folks" (episode # 1.6) 2/11/1995
"John Larroquette Show, The" (1993) 1995
"Dream On" (1990) playing "Alex" in episode: "To the Moon, Alex!" 31/10/1992
"Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990) playing "Roger Azarian, senior interviewed by Brandon for the Blaze" 1990
"Who's the Boss?" (1984) playing "Benjamin" in episode: "Roomies" 1990
"Growing Pains" (1985) playing "Sandy" in episode: "In Carol We Trust" (episode # 4.11) 18/01/1989
"Growing Pains" (1985) playing "Sandy" in episode: "Second Chance" 1989
"Just the Ten of Us" (1988) playing "Bob" 1989
"Dream On" (1990)
"Empty Nest" (1988) playing "older Billy"
"Tracey Ullman Show, The" (1987) playing "Craig"
"Growing Pains" (1985) playing "Carol's boyfriend Sandy"
"Charles in Charge" (1984)
"Silver Spoons" (1982) playing "Davey"

•Love Interests: Matthew has been previously linked with Jennifer Aniston and Julia Roberts. He has also been linked to actress Tricia Fisher, daughter of Connie Stevens and Eddie Fisher, who played Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss in a TV film. Matthew has had many drug and alcohol related problems in the past and despite celebrity girlfriends such as Julia Roberts, he attributes his state of mind to his failure with women.

Highschool recollections

"My date dumped me for somebody else. At the prom! I'm not sure if she was actually making out with my friend, but I sensed that it was about to happen, so I gave them some privacy. Seventeen years old and a big-time broken heart."

• Other Facts:

•Perry was a junior tennis ace before taking up acting.
•Matthew never graduated high school. He gave up his studies when he won a role in a sitcom called Boys will be Boys.
• When Courteney Cox first appeared in her heavier make-up and costume for TOW the prom video, she walked by Matthew Perry and said ‘hey.’ He did not recognize her.
•Matthew Perry co-wrote a sitcom for NBC called Maxwell’s House. It was about a group of friends who sat around a New York coffeehouse talking about their lives. The script was pretty sharp, but the NBC already had a similar sitcom in the works – Friends!!
•Chandler was originally a secondary character, just there for the quick quippy one-liners. But Matthew Perry was able to make Chandler a very funny, yet vunerable and sometimes romantic character. Marta Kauffman says it’s the realer Chandler moments that she adores.