Matthew Steven "Matt" LeBlanc (born July 25, 1967) is an American actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, best known for his role as Joey Tribbiani

Joey Tribbiani

Joseph Francis "Joey" Tribbiani, Jr. is a fictional character on the popular U.S. television sitcom Friends and the title character in the spin-off, Joey , portrayed by Matt LeBlanc....

 on the NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 sitcoms

Situation comedy

A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

 Friends

Friends

Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

and its spin-off Joey

Joey (TV series)

Joey is an American sitcom, which stars Matt LeBlanc reprising his role as Joey Tribbiani from the sitcom Friends. It premiered on the NBC television network, on September 9, 2004, in the former time slot of its parent series, Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m...

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In 2011, LeBlanc began starring as a fictional version of himself in Episodes

Episodes (TV series)

Episodes is a British/American television sitcom serial created by David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik and produced by Hat Trick Productions. It premiered on Showtime on January 9, 2011 at 9:30 pm and began airing on BBC Two on 10 January 2011 at 10 pm...

, a BBC2/Showtime television series created by Friends co-creator David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik

Jeffrey Klarik

Jeffrey Klarik is an American writer and producer. He was a co-producer of the NBC television sitcom Mad About You. In 2002 he created the UPN series Half & Half...

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Matt LeBlanc was born in Newton

Newton, Massachusetts

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, the son of Patricia Grossman, an office manager, and Paul LeBlanc, a mechanic.