Matt Rippy

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Matthew Damon "Rip" Rippy (born January 26, 1968 in Houston , Texas ) is an American actor who lives in England.

life and career

He trained as an actor at the University of Houston , Robert Wilson's Watermill Institute, Long Island , the Herbert Berghoff Studio, New York, and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston .

In 1994 Rippy moved to England, where he joined the originally American theater company, the Reduced Shakespeare Company . In 2011 he went on tour with the small comedy ensemble through the United States, followed by another through the United Kingdom in 2013. The Reduced Shakespeare Company is known for its self-written comedies, which are mostly based on well-known Shakespeare works and other historically significant literature and distort them in a parodistic way and drastically shorten them (or rather poorly summarize them). This is how works such as The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) , All the Great Books (abridged) , Complete History of America (abridged) , The Complete World of Sports (abridged) and The Bible (abridged) were created . The professional actors are exaggeratedly imitating unsuspecting amateur actors and constantly interacting with their audience. The ensemble is abbreviated as RSC , which corresponds to the abbreviation of the famous Royal Shakespeare Company . The ensemble is repeatedly associated with the works of the comedian troupe Monty Python .

In Great Britain, Rippy is best known as a television actor in addition to his theater work. He gained international fame through his guest role as the real Captain Jack Harkness in the Torchwood episode of the same name from 2007. As a result, the main characters Captain Jack Harkness ( John Barrowman ) and Toshiko Sato ( Naoko Mori ) land due to an unfortunate "time difference" in the year 1941 - amid the Cardiff Blitz . At a ball, the two meet a young American RAF Group Captain , who also introduces himself as Jack Harkness. Torchwoods Jack (who calls himself "Captain James Harper" in the following) knows that the real captain will be killed in action the following day: he had assumed the identity of the missing soldier as a con man countless years earlier. "James" encourages Jack to make the most of his remaining time. This causes the captain (Rippy) to admit his homosexuality to himself. He opens up to Torchwood's Captain Jack (Barrowman) and experiences his personal and public coming out with him just before Jack and Tosh have to return to the 21st century. The episode became one of the most popular episodes in the series and led to several invitations Rippy to international comic conventions such as the SDCC , where he appeared together with the main characters from Torchwood and the mother-series Doctor Who and had his own autograph sessions. Rippy himself emphasized the great personal importance of an "omnisexual" action hero like Barrowman's Captain Jack at prime time on public television who does not justify himself and never denies his identity (the same applies to Barrowman). Rippy's brother had committed suicide as a teenager because, as a gay boy in conservative Texas in the 1980s and 1990s, he felt completely alone and helpless and had no such role model. Rippy thinks it is likely that the mere presence of a Captain Jack or a John Barrowman on public family television and social media has given many more children and adolescents hope and thus keeps them alive since the turn of the millennium.

Rippy's latest film Hunter Killer was shot in 2017 and 2018.

He is represented by the London agency Sharon Henry Management .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthew Damon Rippy on speedyhunt.com
  2. ↑ a b Matt Rippy in the IMDb .
  3. ↑ The Complete World of Sports (abridged) trailer; By MattRippy on YouTube, published January 25, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Rippy, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rippy, Matthew Damon (full name); Rippy, Rip (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas