Matthew Perry (1969 - )

• actor, co-star of Friends
• son of Suzanne and John Perry, who divorced soon after his birth
• father was a Los Angeles actor best known for Old Spice commercials
• mother was a Canadian TV anchor and press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
• grew up in his mother's home town of Ottawa
• was the number two ranked junior tennis player in Ottawa at age13
• mother married Canadian anchorman Keith Morrison when Perry was 10
• filmography

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