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Matt Rippy
ActorBorn January 26, 1968 (57 years)
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.
Filmography
| 2024 | The Garfield Movie · as Spanish Find My Pet Voice / Farmhand (voice) |
| 2021 | A Very British Scandal (TV Series) · as Charles Sweeny |
| 2021 | Glória (PT) (2021) (TV Series) · as James Wilson |
| 2020 | Black Beauty · as Henry Gordon |
| 2018 | Ride · as Henri Owl |
| 2018 | |
| 2017 | American Assassin · as Uss Flynn Captain |
| 2017 | Ransom (TV Series) · as Dylan Figgis |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story · as Corporal Rostock |
| 2016 | The Crown (TV Series) · as Us Intelligence Officer |
| 2015 | Eddie the Eagle · as Us Anchorman |
| 2015 | Roboshark · as Rick |
| 2014 | Crystal Skulls · as Terry |
| 2014 | The Monuments Men · as Colonel Gregg |
| 2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit · as Fbi Lead Agent Simmons - Dearborn |
| 2012 | Nuts & Robbers · as Police Officer |
| 2010 | Despicable Me · as Minion #2 |
| 2009 | Nativity! · as Harrison |
| 2008 | Boogeyman 3 · as Kane |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight · as First Mate |
| 2008 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army · as Newscaster |
| 2008 | Bonekickers (TV Series) |
| 2008 | Day of the Dead · as Doctor Logan |
| 2007 | Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV Series) · as Jesse |
| 2007 | Ruddy Hell! It's Harry & Paul (TV Series) · as Mikey |
| 2006 | Torchwood (TV Series) · as The Captain |
| 2006 | Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand · as Lt. Jack 'tex' Wheelis |
| 2006 | Cracker · as Molloy |
| 2006 | |
| 2005 | I Shouldn't Be Alive (TV Series) |
| 2005 | The Poseidon Adventure · as Lieutenant Mercer |
| 2004 | Beyond the Sea · as David Gershenson |
| 2002 | Dinotopia (TV Series) · as Young Cortez |
| 2002 | Wild West (TV Series) · as Martin |
| 2002 | Ultimate Force (TV Series) · as Haley |
| 2001 | Beginner's Luck · as Richard |
| 2001 | Hotel! · as Agent Allright |
| 2000 | Dark Realm (TV Series) · as Officer Smith |
| 2000 | Doctors (TV Series) · as Eddie 'buck' Rogers Iii |
| 1999 | Holby City (TV Series) · as Arlo Deane |
| 1997 | Jonathan Creek (TV Series) · as Bronson Peterman |
| 1993 | Goodnight Sweetheart (TV Series) |
| 1993 |