MATTHEW SETTLE

 Matthew Settle, age 19 He moved to New York City with a rock group. He decided to become an actor when his inability to play a musical instrument led him to rethink the direction of his career. After a series of drama classes, unsuccessful pilots, and TV movies The Johnny-comes-lately into the film industry was capable of landing his first big role in I Still Know What You Did Last summer (1998). Settle was just 29 years old. older. Settle was born in Hickory (NC) on 17 September 1969. In 1983 his father, who was a Baptist preacher, and his mother, a church organist, relocated their family to Sevierville, TN. Settle made a living selling records at Dolly Parton's theme park, Dollywood and then decided to make a career of it. After being evicted by the New York-based band Settle began selling food items and seafood from the back of a Long Island truck before Jay Julian (Robert De Niro's lawyer) got him into acting school. Settle took money from his acquaintances to pay for his classes, and then moved to Los Angeles to start his career. In the film of the week The Story of Bobby Earl?, he played a frat-boy. (1997) together with Kate Jackson and Kristian Alfonso, land a small role in the television film Murder in Mind (1997) with Ellen Burstyn and Kristin Davis, and portray Green Lantern in the pilot for Justice League of America (1997) with David Ogden Stiers and Miguel Ferrer.