Matt Rippy
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| Born | Houston, Texas |
| Occupation | Television actor |
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Matt Rippy, is an American actor, born in Houston, Texas. He recently starred in an episode of the British science-fiction drama series Torchwood and will appear in Day of the Dead.
In 1994 Rippy moved to England and was a member of the Reduced Shakespeare Theatre company.
In a recent television appearance, Rippy portrayed the namesake of Jack Harkness of Torchwood in the series 12th episode Captain Jack Harkness. In the episode, Captain Jack (Rippy) was a young American volunteer serving as an RAF Group Captain stationed in Cardiff. He was in a heterosexual relationship, and was eventually revealed to be attracted to Torchwood's Jack, who after an unfortunate "temporal shift", landed in 1941 during the height of the Cardiff blitz.
