Matt Rippy
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.193 |
Birthday | 1968-01-26 |
Place of Birth | Houston, Texas, USA |
Also Known As | Matthew Damon Rippy, Matthew Rippy, |
2014
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
6.112/2824
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2008
Day of the Dead
5.227/372
When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead, a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.
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2008
Boogeyman 3
5.1/214
When a college student witnesses the alleged suicide of her roommate, it sets into motion a series of horrific events that cause her to fear the super...
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2006
Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand
7/2
The Nuremberg trials, 1946 Goering and the Nazi high command stand trial. Within the prison a dangerous mind game is being conducted by Goering and th...
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2006
Cracker: Nine Eleven
7/2
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2014
Crystal Skulls
5.1/23
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Crystal Skulls
2015
Roboshark
3.8/36
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Roboshark
2006
Penelope
6.715/1372
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Penelope
2008
The Dark Knight
8.5/32711
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the rema...
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2009
Nativity!
6.3/200
Paul, charged with directing his school's Nativity play, falsely boasts that his ex-girlfriend plans to turn the production into a film.
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The Garfield Movie
7.1/1022
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De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre
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2016
Eddie the Eagle
7.2/2080
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2017
American Assassin
6.4/2963
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American Assassin
2005
The Poseidon Adventure
5.2/104
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2016
A Very British Deterrent
0/0
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2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
7.492/15122
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
6.8/5124
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2004
Beyond the Sea
6.3/167
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2014
The Monuments Men
6.061/3543
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape m...
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The Monuments Men
2001
Hotel!
4.5/4
The US president unexpectedly checks into a sleepy hotel in the heart of England, where he is held hostage by terrorists and, even worse, attended to...
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