Matt Rippy
Known for: Acting
Born: January 25, 1968 in Houston, Texas, USA
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
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
FBI Lead Agent Simmons - Dearborn
Day of the Dead
Doctor Logan
Boogeyman 3
Kane
Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand
Lt. Jack 'Tex' Wheelis
Cracker: Nine Eleven
Molloy
Crystal Skulls
Terry
Roboshark
Rick
Penelope
Chauffeur (uncredited)
The Dark Knight
First Mate
Nativity!
Harrison
The Garfield Movie
Spanish Find My Pet Voice / Farmhand (voice)
De Gaulle: Tilting Iron (Film 1)
Frank McSherry
Eddie the Eagle
US Anchorman
American Assassin
USS Flynn Captain
The Poseidon Adventure
Lieutenant Mercer
A Very British Deterrent
John F Kennedy
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Corporal Rostock
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Newscaster
Beyond the Sea
David Gershenson
The Monuments Men
Colonel Gregg
Hotel!
Agent Allright
Torchwood
The Captain
Goodnight Sweetheart