Matt Leblanc

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American actor in one of the hottest TV series of the '90s, "Friends." The show premiered in September 1994 to mixed reviews, showing six young adults in the 20's exploring life, love, jobs, fun and angst, mostly set in a coffee-house where they hung out when not at their next-door apartments. By mid-1995, Friends has some 29 million viewers. Matthew was a graduated of Newton High school in 1985. The son of a mechanic dad and a mom who made circuit-breakers, he took carpentry in school. Going into acting, he had a lucrative break in an award-winning Heinz commercial that ran for four years. His folks divorced and Matt stayed close to his mom. On May 3, 2003, in Hawaii, he married Melissa McKnight, a former model to whom he became engaged in 1998. McKnight has two children from a previous relationship. On January 23, 2004 he and the rest of the cast of top-rated series "Friends" filmed their last episode to be aired in May 2004. He is the only one to have signed up to do a spin-off, called "Joey," scheduled to air at the beginning of the 2004-2005 season in September 2004. The "Friends" actor became a father with the birth of his first child, a daughter named Marina, born on February 8, 2004 in LA. At eight months old, the baby began suffering seizures that affected her motor skills. The child's ability to crawl and sit up was delayed. After months of medical tests, with a diagnosis of dysplasia, a neurological disorder, the child caught up on her developmental skills by age two and stopped having seizures. On January 18, 2006, after fewer than three years of marriage, LeBlanc announced that he was moving out of the home and he and his wife Melissa shared. Two months later, Melissa accused him of being involved with another woman, later revealed as Andrea Anders. By the end of March, he had seen a lawyer about filing for divorce; it became final on September 20, 2006 in Los Angeles, CA. Link to Wikipedia biography