Matt Rippy
Matt Rippy, is an American actor, born in Houston, Texas. He is most known for his role as the 'real' Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood in 2006. He also appears in the films Day of the Dead and Boogeyman 3. In 1994, Rippy moved to England and was a member of the theatre group the Reduced Shakespeare Company. In a recent television appearance, Rippy portrayed the namesake of Jack Harkness of Torchwood in the first series' twelfth 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. Matt Rippy also starred in the fourth series of Ultimate Force, in the final episode, "Slow Bomb". He appeared in an episode of the BBC's Bonekickers on 29 July 2008. He appeared in episode 4, "The Cradle of Civilisation" as an illegal looter of Babylonian artefacts. In 2008 Rippy appeared in The Dark Knight, as the first mate aboard a hostage ship of convicts, as a newscaster in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and in a brief cameo role in Penelope starring Christina Ricci. In 2010, he appeared as a Punter named "Jesse", in the premiere of the third season of Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Rippy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
Movie
The Dark Knight
as First Mate
2008
Movie
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Corporal Rostock
2016
Movie
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
as Newscaster
2008
Movie
The Monuments Men
as Colonel Gregg
2014
Movie
American Assassin
as USS Flynn Captain
2017
Movie
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
as FBI Lead Agent Simmons - Dearborn
2014
TV
The Crown
as US Intelligence Officer
2016
Movie
Eddie the Eagle
as US Anchorman
2016
Movie
Penelope
as Chauffeur (uncredited)
2007
Movie
The Garfield Movie
as Spanish Find My Pet Voice / Farmhand (voice)
2024
TV
Torchwood
as The Captain
2006
Movie
Day of the Dead
as Doctor Logan
2008
Movie
Boogeyman 3
as Kane
2008
TV
FBI: International
as Conrad Baumann
2021
Movie
Nativity!
as Harrison
2009
Movie
Beyond the Sea
as David Gershenson
2004
TV
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
as Jesse
2007
Movie
The Poseidon Adventure
as Lieutenant Mercer
2005
TV
Ransom
as Dylan Figgis
2017
TV
A Very British Scandal
as Charles Sweeny
2021
Movie
Animal Farm
as Additional Voices (voice)
2026
TV
Goodnight Sweetheart
1993
Movie
Roboshark
as Rick
2015
TV
Press
as Max Klein
2018