Matt Rippy

Matt Rippy is an American actor who grew up in Houston, Texas, and started performing as a child, making his first public appearance at The Country Playhouse at 12. He trained at Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and spent three seasons with the Alley Theatre repertory company before moving to England in 1994 to join the Reduced Shakespeare Company, whose abridged Shakespeare shows he performed in the West End and on tours across several continents, also directing and helping develop new plays with the group over about twenty years. He was a 2002 Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Lead Actor. His screen work includes the films Beyond the Sea (2004), Day of the Dead (2008) and Boogeyman 3 (2008), the Torchwood episode Captain Jack Harkness in 2007, and the Netflix series Glória as CIA agent James Wilson.