Matthew Chandler Fox (born July 14, 1966) is an American actor. He is
best known for his roles as Charlie Salinger on Party of Five
(1994â€"2000) and Jack Shephard on the drama series Lost
(2004â€"2010), the latter of which earned him Golden Globe Award and
Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Fox has also performed in ten
feature films, including We Are Marshall (2006), Vantage Point (2008),
Alex Cross (2012), Emperor (2012) and Bone Tomahawk (2015).Fox was
born in Abington, Pennsylvania, the son of Loretta B. (née Eagono)
and Francis G. Fox. One of his paternal great-great-great-grandfathers
was Union General George Meade. His father was from a "very
blue-blood" Pennsylvania family of mostly English descent, while his
mother was of half Italian and half British and Irish ancestry. The
second of three boys, Fox moved to Wyoming when he was a year old with
his parents and brothers, Francis, Jr. (b. 1961) and Bayard (b. 1969).
They settled in Crowheart, Wyoming, on the Wind River Indian
Reservation. His mother was a teacher, and his father, who had been a
consultant for an oil company, raised longhorn cattle and horses, and
grew barley for Coors beer. Matthew attended Deerfield Academy for one
year as a post-graduate and graduated with the class of 1984. He
graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in economics in 1989.At
the age of 25, Fox made his debut on an episode of Wings. That same
year, he also starred on a short-lived dramatic series, Freshman Dorm.
Still not a familiar face on the small screen, he continued to be cast
in supporting roles, including the role of Charlie in the CBS
Schoolbreak Special series If I Die Before I Wake, before he made his
big screen debut in My Boyfriend's Back (1993).
best known for his roles as Charlie Salinger on Party of Five
(1994â€"2000) and Jack Shephard on the drama series Lost
(2004â€"2010), the latter of which earned him Golden Globe Award and
Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Fox has also performed in ten
feature films, including We Are Marshall (2006), Vantage Point (2008),
Alex Cross (2012), Emperor (2012) and Bone Tomahawk (2015).Fox was
born in Abington, Pennsylvania, the son of Loretta B. (née Eagono)
and Francis G. Fox. One of his paternal great-great-great-grandfathers
was Union General George Meade. His father was from a "very
blue-blood" Pennsylvania family of mostly English descent, while his
mother was of half Italian and half British and Irish ancestry. The
second of three boys, Fox moved to Wyoming when he was a year old with
his parents and brothers, Francis, Jr. (b. 1961) and Bayard (b. 1969).
They settled in Crowheart, Wyoming, on the Wind River Indian
Reservation. His mother was a teacher, and his father, who had been a
consultant for an oil company, raised longhorn cattle and horses, and
grew barley for Coors beer. Matthew attended Deerfield Academy for one
year as a post-graduate and graduated with the class of 1984. He
graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in economics in 1989.At
the age of 25, Fox made his debut on an episode of Wings. That same
year, he also starred on a short-lived dramatic series, Freshman Dorm.
Still not a familiar face on the small screen, he continued to be cast
in supporting roles, including the role of Charlie in the CBS
Schoolbreak Special series If I Die Before I Wake, before he made his
big screen debut in My Boyfriend's Back (1993).
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