# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matt-hobby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:05:35.940Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matt-hobby"
name: "Matt Hobby"
slug: "matt-hobby"
description: "Matt Hobby is an American actor and comedian known for portraying Pastor Jeff Difford in Young Sheldon and Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, Philip in the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire, Rudy Truitt in Hart of Dixie and Pat Landy in The Grinder."
tagline: "American actor and comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matt_Hobby_Overload_the_Machine_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1985-01-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.979625333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/matthobby/"
    handle:    "matthobby"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3234459/"
    handle:    "nm3234459"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%B9_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%82"
    title: "میٹ شوق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "مات هوبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hobby"
    title: "Matt Hobby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hobby"
    title: "Matt Hobby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hobby"
    title: "Matt Hobby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%98_%D7%94%D7%95%D7%91%D7%99"
    title: "מאט הובי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hobby"
    title: "Matt Hobby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hobby"
    title: "Matt Hobby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hobby"
    title: "Matt Hobby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73927295"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1536526"
    title: "Matt Hobby"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump