Matthew Steven LeBlanc is an American actor. He garnered global recognition with his portrayal of Joey Tribbiani in the NBC sitcom
Friends and in its spin-off series,
Joey. For his work on
Friends, LeBlanc received three nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards. He has also starred as a fictionalized version of himself in
Episodes (2011â2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and received four additional Emmy Award nominations. He co-hosted
Top Gear from 2016 to 2019. From 2016 to 2020, he played patriarch Adam Burns in the CBS sitcom
Man with a Plan.