Kevin Dillon is the younger brother of actor Matt Dillon and followed his sibling into the family business. He began acting as a teenager in the early 1980s, taking small film roles while Matt was becoming a star. Those early jobs gave him experience in supporting parts, often playing scrappy or rebellious young men.
Dillon's breakthrough came in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986), where he played Bunny, a hardened and volatile soldier serving in Vietnam. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture and gave Dillon one of his most memorable early roles.
He followed with the 1988 horror remake The Blob, playing rebellious hero Brian Flagg, and appeared in Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991) as drummer John Densmore. Through the 1990s and early 2000s he worked steadily in film and television, usually in supporting roles.
In 2004 Dillon was cast as Johnny "Drama" Chase in the HBO comedy Entourage, about a young movie star and his circle of friends. As the struggling older brother of Vincent Chase, Dillon played a proud, temperamental actor chasing his own comeback. The role brought him Emmy nominations and made him recognizable to a new generation of viewers. He stayed with the series through its eight-season run, which ended in 2011, and reprised the character in the 2015 Entourage film.
After Entourage, Dillon continued to appear in film and television. His career has mixed broad comedy with hard-edged drama, and he remains associated with two signature roles: the hard-edged soldier Bunny and the perpetually auditioning Johnny Drama.
Kevin Dillon was born on August 19, 1965 in Mamaroneck, New York, United States. In Cardology (Destiny Cards), August 19, 1965 corresponds to the Seven of Clubs, making the Seven of Clubs his Birth Card.
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