Matthew Lillard

At 54 years old, Matthew Lillard has this physical status:

Matthew Lyn Lillard (born January 24, 1970) is an American actor, voice actor, producer, and producer.

Chip Sutphin (1994), Emmanuel "Cereal Killer" Goldstein in Hackers (1995), Stevo in Scream (1996), Stevo in SLC Punk. Tim LaFlour in Senseless (1998) and Billy Brubaker in Summer Catch (2001).

Shaggy Rogers appeared in two live action Scooby-Doo (2004) and Scooby-Doo (2004), and in animation, he's been Shaggy's voice since Casey Kasem's departure from film duties in 2009.

Lillard has given dramatic performances in The Descendants (2011), Trouble with the Curve (2012), and Match (2014), although much of his work is comedic in nature.

Fat Kid Rules the World is his debut film with the coming-of-age drama Fat Kid Rules the World (2012).

In the ongoing television series Good Girls, Lillard has appeared as Dean Boland, the husband of Christina Hendricks' character Beth Boland.

Early life

Lillard was born in Lansing, Michigan, on January 24, 1970, the son of Paula and Jeffrey Lillard (born 1948), and grew up in Tustin, California. He has a younger sister, Amy, and attended Foothill High School in North Tustin, California. He stayed at Fullerton College and then joined the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California, with fellow actor Paul Rudd. In New York City, he attended Circle in the Square Theatre School.

Personal life

Lillard married Heather Helm, with whom he has three children, on August 26, 2000. They live in Los Angeles.

At the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California, he participated in a Dungeons & Dragons tournament against members of the Quest Club Gaming Organisation in October 2005. Lillard has also played Dungeons & Dragons with Christopher Perkins as the Dungeon Master.

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Career

Lillard, a senior, was co-host of a short-lived television show titled SK8-TV, and later was hired as an extra in Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go to College (1991). He appeared in the John Waters black comedy Serial Mom in 1994. He appeared in five films in the following year, including Hackers, a drama about a group of high school students who thwart a multimillion-dollar corporate extortion plot. He was in the horror film Scream in 1996 as Stu Macher. He appeared in SLC Punk! as Stevo and in Thirteen Ghosts as well as supporting character Dennis Rafkin. He had intended to reprise his role as Stu Macher in 2000's Scream 3, but the plans were changed.

In the 2002 live action Scooby-Doo film Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, Lillard was cast as a villain in the 2004 sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Casey Kasem, who had been narrating the character since 1969, was chosen as his replacement and voiced Shaggy in three subsequent animated series, Mystery Incorporated, Be Cool Scooby-Doo!, Scooby-Doo!, and Guess Who, as well as every direct-to-video film since 2010's Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo - Abracadabra. Lillard, on the other hand, did not voice Shaggy in the computer-animated 2020 Scooby-Doo reboot Scoob! Scoob!

In 2011, Lillard appeared on the Fox series House as a guest star. Fat Kid Rules the World, his first feature film based on the K.L. Going book of the same name, was produced and directed in 2011. He appeared in the comedy-drama film The Descendants later this year. In the crossover episode in the television series Supernatural in 2018, Lillard reprised the voice of Shaggy.

Lillard appeared in the Criminal Minds episode "The Apprenticeship" in 2012. Daniel Frye appeared on American television show The Bridge for the following year. Lillard appeared in Under Wraps, a cartoon film starring Brooke Shields and Drake Bell in 2014. In the third season of Twin Peaks, Lillard appeared as William Hastings. On the NBC series Good Girls, Christina Hendricks' cheating husband debuted next year.

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