Dark-haired and handsome with a boy-next-door charm, Matthew Settle was quickly touted as the "new Tom Cruise", joining the ranks of countless young actors also outfitted with the title. A relatively late entrant to the business, Settle moved from his Tennessee home to New York City at age nineteen to play in a rock band. Realizing after the band ousted him that his talents must lie elsewhere, Settle began to study acting and appeared on stage. But it wasn't until 1996 that he landed his first onscreen role, starring in the CBS Western pilot "Shaughnessy", which was not picked up to become a