Full Name=Matthew Steven "Matt" LeBlanc; Profession=Actor, comedian, television producer; Nationality=American; Born=25 July 1967; Birthplace=Newton, Massachusetts, United States; Generation=Generation X (born within the commonly cited 1965–1980 range for Gen X); Chinese Zodiac=Fire Goat (Sheep), corresponding to births between late January 1967 and early 1968 in the traditional lunar calendar; Zodiac Sign=Leo, as all births on July 25 fall under Leo in Western astrology; Age in 2026=59 (calculated from his 1967 birth year); Marital Status=Divorced, not currently married, previously married to British-American model and actress Melissa (Missy) McKnight in May 2003, with the marriage ending in divorce finalized in 2006 after just under three years; Children=One biological daughter Marina Pearl LeBlanc, born 4 February 2004, with Melissa McKnight, plus two stepchildren Tyler Esposito and Jacquelyn Esposito from McKnight’s earlier marriage, with whom he has long maintained a close parental relationship; Description=American screen and television star who achieved worldwide fame and pop-culture icon status through his portrayal of the dim-witted yet lovable ladies’ man Joey Tribbiani on the NBC ensemble sitcom Friends (1994–2004) and its spin-off Joey (2004–2006), a role that earned him multiple Primetime Emmy nominations and cemented his image as one of the defining comedic actors of the 1990s, later reinventing himself by playing a heightened, self-referential version of “Matt LeBlanc” in the Anglo-American comedy series Episodes, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical in 2012 amid strong competition from other major comedy leads, and further broadening his cultural footprint by becoming the first non-British main host of the BBC’s flagship motoring show Top Gear beginning in 2016, where his enthusiasm for cars and easygoing on-screen persona endeared him to a global audience before stepping away in 2018 due to the travel demands, alongside film work in projects such as Lost in Space and Charlie’s Angels and a return to network comedy as family man Adam Burns in the CBS sitcom Man with a Plan, all of which collectively position him as one of the most instantly recognizable television actors of his generation and a lasting symbol of late-20th-century and early-21st-century entertainment culture; Cause of Death=Alive as of 2026 (no public record of his death and continued coverage of his life and career in recent profiles and news).