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Matthew Settle (born September 17, 1969 in Hickory, North Carolina) is an
American actor best known for playing Capt. Ronald Speirs on the HBO show
Band of Brothers.
Dark-haired and handsome with a boy-next-door charm, Matthew Settle was
quickly touted as the "new Tom Cruise", joining the ranks of countless young
actors also outfitted with the title. A relatively late entrant to the
business, Settle moved from his Tennessee home to New York City at age
nineteen to play in a rock band. Realizing after the band ousted him that
his talents must lie elsewhere, Settle began to study acting and appeared on
stage.
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But it wasn't until 1996 that he landed his first onscreen role, starring in
the CBS Western pilot "Shaughnessy", which was not picked up to become a
series. The following year he was tagged to co-star in the CBS TV-movie "What
Happened to Bobby Earl?", playing a young man whose involvement with a
mysterious older woman leads to the disappearance of his titular friend.
That same year, the actor was featured in the ABC movie mystery "A Deadly
Vision".
In 1998, Settle made his big screen debut as a college student friend of
Jennifer Love Hewitt's stalked Julie who accompanies her on a resort
vacation turned deadly in "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer". The actor
reached a large audience with his portrayal of Will, a young man with a
deadly secret, and earned himself a loyal fan base. He followed up with more
TV work, playing a young Bugsy Siegel (Eric Roberts portraying the gangster
later in life) in David Mamet's fact-based portrait of early organized crime
figure "Lansky" (1999) and rounded out that year with a starring turn in the
fact-based TV-movie "Crime in Connecticut: The Return of Alex Kelly" (CBS),
portraying the titular rapist from a wealthy family who dodged authorities
for eight years living a privileged life in European ski lodges. Settle
managed to make the character appropriately detestable yet capable of
believably projecting a charming facade, and the high-profile nature of the
case and resulting interest surrounding the telepic garnered him increased
visibility.
In 2000, Settle returned to the big screen with three notable film roles,
beginning with a featured turn in the ensemble of the suspenseful World War
II action drama "U-571", playing Ensign Larson, one of a troop of Americans
on a mission to learn German war secrets who end up as stowaways on an enemy
U-boat. Later that year he starred as Matt Curtis, a dashing tennis pro and
member of "The In Crowd", an elite group that a mysterious newcomer will do
anything to join. Settle also had a co-starring role alongside Gretchen Mol
in "Stalk", an independent dark comedy about an obsessive love relationship. |
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MOST POPULAR
Angelina Jolie
Jessica Alba
Paris Hilton
Scarlett Johansson
Jessica Simpson
Britney Spears
Christina Aguilera
Lindsay Lohan
Shakira
Beyonce
Hilary Duff
ADDITIONS
Miley Cyrus
Rihanna
Hayden Panettiere
Miranda Cosgrove
Selena Gomez
Demi Lovato
Vanessa Hudgens
Ashley Tisdale
Jonas Brothers
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