Matt LeBlanc
Matt LeBlanc
Matthew Steven "Matt" LeBlanc is an American actor, comedian, television host, and producer, best known for his role as the dim-witted womanizing actor Joey Tribbiani on the popular NBC sitcom Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004. LeBlanc also stars as a fictional version of himself in Episodes. He won a Golden Globe award for his work on Episodes, and was nominated for an Emmy three times for his work on Friends and four times for Episodes. Since 2016 LeBlanc...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth25 July 1967
CityNewton, MA
CountryUnited States of America
I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.
The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.
I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?
When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.
This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.
Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.
You can't be funny if you don't have good material.
But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.
In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.
I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.
I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.
I started going gray in my early twenties.
'Friends' was a true ensemble. There really was no star of the show.