Matthew Perry's life in pictures
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Matthew Perry, best known for his role as Chandler Bing in TV sitcom Friends, has died aged 54.
Matthew Perry in New York, 1988
Perry was born in Massachusetts in 1969 and then raised in Ottawa, Canada, where he attended elementary school with Justin Trudeau, who later became Canadian prime minister.
As a teenager, Perry moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actor. In the late 1980s, he starred as Chazz Russell in Boys Will Be Boys and as Roger alongside Christina Applegate in teen movie Dance 'Til Dawn.
Perry with Christina Applegate in 1988
But it was his role as Chandler Bing on Friends that catapulted him to global game.
The quick-witted Chandler was famous for his sarcastic one-liners, and the role earned Perry a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2002.
Perry and his Friends co-stars at the People's Choice Awards in 1995
The comedy, also starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow, first aired in 1994 and went on to become one of the most successful shows of all times.
Perry in 2000 Friends episode The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs
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The cast of Friends on the set of Central Perk with Jay Leno for a Tonight Show special in 2004
A Friends promo shot, 1999
Perry and his co-stars in one of their last shows, 2003
Perry at the Golden Globes Awards, California, 2002
Perry also appeared in several films, including Fools Rush In, Almost Heroes, the Whole Nine Yards and 17 Again.
Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek in a scene from the 1997 film Fools Rush In
Perry with actors Michelle Trachtenberg, Zac Efron, Leslie Mann at the premier of 17 again in 2009
His most recent role was as Ted Kennedy, the former US senator and brother of assassinated president John F Kennedy, in the 2017 television mini-series The Kennedys: Decline and Fall.
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- Published29 October 2023
- Published29 October 2023
- Published29 October 2023
