Actor / Director Profile

Texan actor Matt Bomer is the son of Sissi and John Bomer, a former Dallas Cowboys football player. He was educated at Klein High School near Houston. After school, he attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Bomer then relocated to New York to forge a career in acting.Theater work followed, but his television break came with a small part in "All My Children" (1970). This lead to a reoccurring role in "Guiding Light" (1952) as murderous Ben Reade. Further success in TV followed including parts in "Tru Calling" (2003), "Chuck" (2007) and the lead role in "Traveler" (2007) . Bomer also scored film roles in projects such as Flightplan (2005) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006). In 2009, he was cast in the lead role of criminal mastermind Neal Caffrey in Fox's "White Collar" (2009).