Matthew Settle | |
Birth Name: | Jeffrey Matthew Settle |
Birth Date: | 17 September 1969 |
Birth Place: | Hickory, North Carolina, U.S. |
Occupation: | Actor |
Years Active: | 1996–present |
Children: | 1 |
Jeffrey Matthew Settle (born September 17, 1969) is an American actor. He is known for playing Captain Ronald Speirs on the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and Rufus Humphrey on the CW teen drama series Gossip Girl.
Settle was born in Hickory, North Carolina, the son of Robert, a Baptist minister, and Joan Settle.[1] He is the youngest of six children, having two sisters and three brothers.[2]
Settle made his Broadway debut in a strictly limited engagement in , appearing as Billy Flynn from April 19 through June 13, 2010.[3] [4] He made his feature film debut in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer co-starring alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Mekhi Phifer, and Brandy Norwood. He also had a guest appearance in the seventh season of as a reporter in the episode "Storm". From 2007 to 2012, Settle portrayed Rufus Humphrey, the father of Dan and Jenny, on the CW teen drama series Gossip Girl. Other past roles include his portrayal of Capt. Ronald Speirs in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and his role as Jacob Wheeler in the TNT miniseries Into the West. He also played the part of John in the film Beneath. He played John in the 2006 movie, The Celestine Prophecy.
In 2007, Settle revealed that in 2006, at age 37, he had eloped to marry Israeli actress and model Naama Nativ,[2] with whom he had a child, born in 2009.[5] The couple divorced in May 2011.
Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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1996 | Tommy Shaughnessy | Television film | ||
1997 | What Happened to Bobby Earl? | Tom Stahl | ||
Det. Max Seagle | ||||
Justice League of America | Guy Gardner / Green Lantern | |||
1998 | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer | Will Benson | ||
1999 | Lansky | Bugsy Siegel (ages 17–26) | Television film | |
Alex Kelly | ||||
2000 | U-571 | Ensign Keith Larson | ||
Matt | ||||
Attraction | Matthew | |||
2002 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Lt. Jack Whitman | ||
2004 | Warren Beatty | Television film | ||
Hank Ford | ||||
Until the Night | Michael | |||
Rancid | James Hayson | |||
2005 | Mutig in die neuen Zeiten – Im Reich der Reblaus | Hal Morris | Television film | |
2006 | John | |||
2007 | Blue Smoke | Bo Goodnight | Television film | |
Beneath | John | |||
2008 | President Kennedy | |||
2009 | ExTerminators | Dan | ||
2011 | So Undercover | Professor Talloway | ||
2012 | Love Sick Love | Norman | ||
2013 | Phil | Television film | ||
2014 | Ouija | Anthony Morris | ||
Paper Angels | Kevin Morrell | |||
2015 | Sam Harris | |||
Marshall the Miracle Dog | Doc Henry | |||
2016 | The Faith of Anna Waters | Sam Harris | ||
2017 | Valentine | Bono |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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2001 | Band of Brothers | Capt. Ronald Speirs | Miniseries; 6 episodes | |
2002 | ER | Brian Westlake | 5 episodes | |
2003 | Russell Bakey | 3 episodes | ||
Art Pickering | Episode: "Death Grip" | |||
2004 | Decisive Battles | Himself | Host; 13 episodes | |
2005 | Into the West | Jacob Wheeler | Miniseries; 3 episodes | |
Jackson Zane | Episode: "Storm" | |||
2006 | Brothers and Sisters | Jonathan Sellers | 4 episodes | |
2007 | Michael Madison | 2 episodes | ||
2007–12 | Gossip Girl | Rufus Humphrey | Main cast; 119 episodes Teen Choice Award for Choice TV: Parental Unit | |
2016 | Daniel Wolf | 1 episode |