But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

Abrams thought he would be better for the role of Jack a role originally slated to be for the pilot episode only. That same year he also starred on a short-lived dramatic series Freshman Dorm. His father was from a "very blue-blood" Pennsylvania family of mostly English descent while his mother was of half Italian and half British Isles ancestry.

Matthew Chandler Fox (born July 14 1966) is an American actor.