MATTHEW SETTLE

 Matthew Settle, age 19 He relocated to New York City with a rock group. He decided to become an actor after his inability play a musical instrument forced him to reconsider the direction of his career. Many drama classes, unsuccessful pilots, and even television movies after that, this Johnny-comes-lately to the movie business was offered his first major role as the oldest actor in the teen scream flick I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998). Settle was 29 years old. of age. Settle was born in Hickory (NC) on 17 September 1969. In 1983 his father, who was an ordained Baptist preacher, as well as his mother, who was a church organist, moved the family to Sevierville, TN. Settle was a Dolly Parton fan and sold records at Dollywood's amusement park. He then determined to become a musician. After being exiled from his New York-based rock group He sold seafood and meat off of trucks in Long Island before Jay Julian, Robert De Niro's lawyer who enrolled him in acting school. Settle took money from his friends to afford the classes after which he moved to Los Angeles to begin his career.Settle made his small-screen debut opposite Sarah Paulson as an Irish-American settler in the 1996 CBS pilot Shaughnesy. In the film of the week, What Happened To Bobby Earl?, he played a frat boy. (1997), Kate Jackson and Kristian alfonso. He also has a tiny role in the TV film Murder in Mind (1997), with Ellen Burstyn, Kristin Davis.