’90s acting icon Matt Dillon appears to be embracing his later years.
While at the Cannes Film Festival in France this week, the 60-year-old Texan actor was spotted with some silver strands in his neatly cropped light brown hair.
The actor normally has very dark brown hair, but on Wednesday he looked like he was starting to embrace a silver fox style.
Dillon wore a dark jacket with a black shirt and gray jeans while attending the Being Maria photocall at the Palais des Festivals. In the film he plays Marlon Brando.
The New York native has a long and varied career that includes classics like Drugstore Cowboy (1989) and massive hits like There’s Something About Mary (1998), starring his girlfriend at the time, Cameron Diaz.
Matt has also been in the spotlight lately as he met Angelina Jolie when she was at an event for her stage version of The Outsiders; Dillon starred in the film version of the story in the 1980s.
’90s acting icon Matt Dillon appears to be embracing his later years. While at the Cannes Film Festival in France this week, the 60-year-old Texan actor was spotted with some silver strands in his neatly cropped light brown hair.
Seen on the left on Wednesday with a light beard and on the right in the 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy.
Her new film Being Maria is about Maria Schneider’s rise to fame after Last Tango in Paris.
Dillon plays his Tango co-star Marlon Brando. María is played by Anamaría Vartolomei.
The film partly follows the controversial production and harrowing aftermath of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 masterpiece.
The Academy Award nominee made his Film debut in Over the Edge (1979).
Jane Bernstein and a friend helped director Jonathan Kaplan cast the teenager in the drama Over the Edge.
They encountered Dillon leaving a class at Hommocks High School in Larchmont.
Dillon auditioned for a role and got it. Dillon’s performance was well received.
He was also a teenager when he starred in the classic 1980 film My Bodyguard. He played a high school bully opposite Chris Makepeace.
He then 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).
When he starred in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983), he was a true teenage heartthrob.
Dillon wore a dark jacket with a black shirt and gray jeans when he attended the Being Maria photocall at the Palais des Festivals.
His hair appeared grayer in the back while 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 played a braver character in the edgy Drugstore Cowboy (1989).
The actor played an intense drug addict in Gus Van Sant’s acclaimed film.
And he was part of an ensemble with Bridget Fonda in the Seattle-based romantic comedy Singles (1992).
Matt took on a more mature role opposite Nicole Kidman in To Die For (1995), playing 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 as the goofy cheeseball opposite Ben Stiller’s insecure everyman.
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 alongside Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson in 2006.
In 2018, Dillon played the lead role in Lars von Trier’s thriller The House That Jack Built.
He then 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 played a braver character in the edgy Drugstore Cowboy (1989). The actor played an intense drug addict in Gus Van Sant’s acclaimed film
The star was part of an ensemble with Bridget Fonda in the Seattle-based romantic comedy Singles in 1992.
When she starred in 1998’s There’s Something About Mary, she played against her screen idol type while getting dentures. Matt received an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
More recently, he has taken on smaller roles in more outlandish films such as Asteroid City (2023).
For Crash (2004), he won an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Proving just how well-rounded he is, Dillon made a cameo 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 the Italian actress, dancer and choreographer Roberta Mastromichele.
Matt has also been in the spotlight lately as he met Angelina Jolie when she was at an event for her stage version of The Outsiders, which Dillon starred in in the film version in the 1980s. Seen in April