Bomer grew up in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston. As a young child, he spent time playing outside and cultivating his imagination. He recalls watching ET and knowing that he wanted to be like Elliott. “When I was about 8 or 9, I started asking my mom how I could get an agent,” he says. “Thankfully, my mom was like, ‘What are you talking about? Go play outside.’” He became more serious about acting as a middle school and high school student, eventually quitting the football team (his father, John Bomer, was a center for the Dallas Cowboys) to act in the Alley Theatre in Houston. “I sat my parents down and told them that was what I wanted to do with my life,” he says. “And, thankfully, they were very supportive of that.”
He chose Carnegie Mellon and says, “Fortunately, I got in.” Bomer was attracted to the faculty and the program. “I knew it had a very reputable program that helped people get into the business when they graduated, and that was very important to me,” he says. Moving to Pittsburgh in the late summer of 1996 was a big change for him. “The first thing I noticed was that not everybody had the heavy air conditioning that they had in Texas because it’s so hot all year round there. So, I was sweating half the time. But, after that first snow, I really fell in love with the city; it was the first time I experienced living in a city where it was going to snow pretty regularly.”
Bomer lived in Mudge House on campus his freshman year. Later, he moved to Ivy Street in Shadyside, living just a block off of Walnut Street, where he and his friends loved hanging out. They went to Pamela’s for breakfast and Sushi II “if we were going to get fancy.”
“I love Shadyside,” Bomer says. “It was such a cool neighborhood. It was before Walnut Street got really invaded by the big corporations. So, it was just a charming block that had all these great restaurants on it and cool places to hang out. It was just great. All of my friends lived within a few blocks of me and we would have parties at each other’s houses and it was just a great time in my life.”
The actor describes his time at Carnegie Mellon as very intense. “We worked 60 hours a week sometimes. There were times that I would be doing a Shakespeare play, a scene from another play, two different monologues, a song, and everything else, all in the course of one day,” he says. The camaraderie of the program made it bearable, though. “We really became a family,” Bomer says. One of those “family members” is Cote de Pablo, who plays Ziva on CBS’s NCIS. “My time with ‘Matchulo’ at CMU was amazing,” she says.
“Not only is he a very talented actor and singer, but he is also a truly giving person. Many people may not know this about Matt, but he is drop-dead funny and a very gifted character actor. I’m sure if you putt Matt and me in the same room talking about our time at Carnegie Mellon, there would be a lot of laughter.”
While he was in college, he also impressed a Pittsburgh native, Gillian Jacobs, who is currently starring as the funny, quirky, blond-haired Britta in NBC’s Community. As a Mt. Lebanon High School student, Jacobs would observe the drama classes at Carnegie Mellon. She clearly remembers Bomer (later on, she also played a role as his girlfriend in a pilot for the now-cancelled show Traveler, but she was recast). “Way back, when I was 13, I would go sit in on acting classes at CMU. Matt Bomer is just the loveliest, sweetest person,” she says. “And — he has the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen!”
He chose Carnegie Mellon and says, “Fortunately, I got in.” Bomer was attracted to the faculty and the program. “I knew it had a very reputable program that helped people get into the business when they graduated, and that was very important to me,” he says. Moving to Pittsburgh in the late summer of 1996 was a big change for him. “The first thing I noticed was that not everybody had the heavy air conditioning that they had in Texas because it’s so hot all year round there. So, I was sweating half the time. But, after that first snow, I really fell in love with the city; it was the first time I experienced living in a city where it was going to snow pretty regularly.”
Bomer lived in Mudge House on campus his freshman year. Later, he moved to Ivy Street in Shadyside, living just a block off of Walnut Street, where he and his friends loved hanging out. They went to Pamela’s for breakfast and Sushi II “if we were going to get fancy.”
“I love Shadyside,” Bomer says. “It was such a cool neighborhood. It was before Walnut Street got really invaded by the big corporations. So, it was just a charming block that had all these great restaurants on it and cool places to hang out. It was just great. All of my friends lived within a few blocks of me and we would have parties at each other’s houses and it was just a great time in my life.”
The actor describes his time at Carnegie Mellon as very intense. “We worked 60 hours a week sometimes. There were times that I would be doing a Shakespeare play, a scene from another play, two different monologues, a song, and everything else, all in the course of one day,” he says. The camaraderie of the program made it bearable, though. “We really became a family,” Bomer says. One of those “family members” is Cote de Pablo, who plays Ziva on CBS’s NCIS. “My time with ‘Matchulo’ at CMU was amazing,” she says.
“Not only is he a very talented actor and singer, but he is also a truly giving person. Many people may not know this about Matt, but he is drop-dead funny and a very gifted character actor. I’m sure if you putt Matt and me in the same room talking about our time at Carnegie Mellon, there would be a lot of laughter.”
While he was in college, he also impressed a Pittsburgh native, Gillian Jacobs, who is currently starring as the funny, quirky, blond-haired Britta in NBC’s Community. As a Mt. Lebanon High School student, Jacobs would observe the drama classes at Carnegie Mellon. She clearly remembers Bomer (later on, she also played a role as his girlfriend in a pilot for the now-cancelled show Traveler, but she was recast). “Way back, when I was 13, I would go sit in on acting classes at CMU. Matt Bomer is just the loveliest, sweetest person,” she says. “And — he has the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen!”
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