The most well-known role of American-Canadian actor Matthew Perry is that of Chandler Bing in the sitcom Friends. Read about his life and the places he called home before his tragic death on October 28, 2023, from what appeared to be drowning.

As Chandler Bing on the NBC sitcom Friends (1994–2004), Matthew Perry became well-known throughout the world in the 1990s.

Where was Matthew Perry from? Life in Williamstown, Massachusetts, revealed

Williamstown, Massachusetts, is where Matthew Perry comes from. Matthew Perry was born on August 19, 1969. He was brought up in Ottawa, Canada, and attended elementary school there alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Press secretary and journalist Suzanne Morrison was the wife of Justin’s father, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Perry’s stepfather is the actor Keith Morrison from Dateline. His father was a model and actor named John Bennett Perry. In a 1979 episode of his father’s police drama, 240-Robert, Perry’s younger son even made a brief appearance.

Perry was a teenager when he moved to Los Angeles. Before making a comeback in 1987–1988 as Chazz Russell on Boys Will Be Boys, he made a few TV guest appearances. Even though he went on to star in Growing Pains and Sydney, it was NBC’s venerable sitcom Friends that gave him his big break in 1994.

The 2011 comedy series Mr. Sunshine, co-created by Matthew Perry, was canceled by ABC after nine episodes. 2013 saw the premiere of his one-season comedy Go On on NBC. After that, he co-starred for three seasons (2015–17) with Thomas Lennon in the CBS revival of The Odd Couple.