Matthew Perry has decided to leave singleness.
At 51, the actor known for his role as the ironic Chandler Bing from the
Friends
series
, has announced his engagement to his current partner.
She is not famous nor does she have anything to do with the world of acting.
Her name is Molly Hurwitz, she's 29 years old and she's a literary agent.
From what little is known about her, the couple have been dating for about two years.
The good news has been told by Perry himself, and has told
People
magazine
.
“I have decided to commit myself.
Luckily, it turns out that I date the best woman on the face of the Earth ”, he told the publication.
For her part, Hurwitz herself, with a much lower public profile than her partner, has not spoken.
Although there are Anglo-Saxon media that remember a message that she posted on Valentine's Day and where she said: "It is the second year that it is my Valentine, but the first that it is an Instagram star", in reference to the account of that social network that the actor had just created.
This is Perry's first wedding.
The actor became especially famous between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, when the famous television series
Friends
was broadcast around the world
,
in which he played one of the six friends of the protagonist gang with Rachel ( Jennifer Aniston), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Ross (David Schwimmer), Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Monica (Courteney Cox), with whom he had an affair and ended up marrying in fiction.
However, to the disappointment of many fans, the real-life Chandlers and Monica never had an affair.
Perry and Cox have always maintained a loving and friendly relationship, and although some sources have tried to point out that he has always been in love with her, there is no indication that justifies that statement.
However, Perry has had many well-known girlfriends in the world of film and television.
One of the first and most famous was Julia Roberts, whom he met precisely on the set of a chapter of
Friends
.
Roberts - who played an old schoolmate and Chandler's new romance - appeared in the second season, in a special Thanksgiving double episode that became the series' most watched, with 53 million viewers.
But the chemistry she had with Matthew Perry crossed the screen, and the couple dated between 1995 and 1996.
After ending her affair with Roberts, the dating list is long.
That same year Perry dated Yasmine Bleeth, one of the stars of
Baywatch
.
In 1998, in the filming of Tango para tres, she had a relationship with Neve Campbell, her co-star.
With Lauren Graham (
Gilmore Girls
) he worked on more than one occasion, and he also dated her.
One of his longest relationships, spanning two years and in the late 2000s, was with an unknown woman named Rachel Dunn who was a fashion student.
Then he went out for six with the interpreter Lizzy Caplan (
Master of Sex, Mean Girls
).
He broke up with her in 2012, and since then he had not known another stable partner until his current fiancée came into his life.
The fame of
Friends made
it difficult for him to date girls normally, Perry himself confessed in a 1997 interview with the
Entertainment Weekly
publication
.
“If you have dinner with someone the next day the whole country thinks you have a girlfriend, which is a bit strange.
I was already lost about dating before
Friends
.
So this makes it even more confusing.
But in the worst case scenario, I have the best job in the world, ”he joked.
His work was fabulous, yes, but years later he himself has recognized that there are three whole years of his shooting that he does not remember.
His addictions have put him through rehabilitation centers at least twice.
“Between the third and the sixth season I was a bit off.
They were difficult years, ”the actor said on BBC Radio 2. For years he was addicted to alcohol and vicodin or Vicodin, an opioid derived from codeine, which is used as an oral analgesic to treat pain.
"I couldn't stop," he confessed in an interview with
The Hollywood Reporter
.
"There came a point where things got so bad that I couldn't hide it anymore and everyone knew about it."
He recognized that during that shoot, staying sober was something "very complicated."
“I'm shy, but being on a show that's watched by 30 million viewers made people aware of my problem.
That is why it is so important to have clinics that isolate you from the environment that does not favor you ”, he added.
Now recovered, he now affirms that he is happy to be able to help those who live in a similar situation.
“The best thing I have done is that if an alcoholic comes up to me and asks me to help him stop drinking, I always say yes.
I know how to get it ”.