Matt Rippy

Matt Rippy is an American actor born in Houston Texas He is most known for his role as the real Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood in 2006 He also appears in the films Day of the Dead and Boogeyman 3 In 1994 Rippy moved to England and was a member of the theatre group the Reduced Shakespeare Company In a recent television appearance Rippy portrayed the namesake of Jack Harkness of Torchwood in the first series twelfth episode Captain Jack Harkness In the episode Captain Jack Rippy was a young American volunteer serving as an RAF Group Captain stationed in Cardiff He was in a heterosexual relationship and was eventually revealed to be attracted to Torchwoods Jack who after an unfortunate temporal shift landed in 1941 during the height of the Cardiff blitz Matt Rippy also starred in the fourth series of Ultimate Force in the final episode Slow Bomb He appeared in an episode of the BBCs Bonekickers on 29 July 2008 He appeared in episode 4 The Cradle of Civilisation as an illegal looter of Babylonian artefacts In 2008 Rippy appeared in The Dark Knight as the first mate aboard a hostage ship of convicts as a newscaster in Hellboy II The Golden Army and in a brief cameo role in Penelope starring Christina Ricci In 2010 he appeared as a Punter named Jesse in the premiere of the third season of Secret Diary of a Call Girl Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Rippy licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia