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• Grew up believing that his father was actor Robert Vaughn until a paternity test proved otherwise; he later legally changed his name to Matthew Allard de Vere Drummond to reflect his parentage.
• Godfather is Peter Morton, movie producer and cofounder of the Hard Rock Café.
• In 2004, made his directorial debut with Layer Cake, a thriller about a retiring drug dealer who's forced to take another assignment.
• Was set to direct X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) but left the project due to script concerns; eventually directed the prequel X-Men: First Class (2011).
• Is color blind.