Ryan Phillippe
Birth name	Matthew Ryan Phillippe
Born	September 10, 1974 (1974-09-10) (age 32) New Castle, Delaware
Spouse(s)	Reese Witherspoon (1999 - present) (filed for divorce) 2 children
Notable roles	Sebastian Valmont in Cruel Intentions (1999) Officer Tom Hansen in Crash (2005) John "Doc" Bradley in Flags of Our Fathers (2006) Eric O'Neill in Breach (2007)

Ryan Phillippe (born Matthew Ryan Phillippe on September 10, 1974) is an American actor. After appearing on the soap opera One Life to Live, he came to fame in the late 1990s, after starring in a string of teen-oriented films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and 54. Phillippe's more recent roles include the 2005 Academy Award-winning ensemble film Crash and the 2006 war drama Flags of Our Fathers. In 2007 he starred in Breach, a movie based on the true story of FBI Operative Eric O'Neill who is assigned to shadow and help catch his boss, Robert Hanssen, a Soviet spy, in the act of selling secret material. September 10 is the 253rd day of the Gregorian calendar (254th in leap years). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Old New Castle Courthouse. ... Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976),[1] known simply as Reese Witherspoon, is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American feature film starring Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. ... Crash is an Academy Award-winning drama film directed by Paul Haggis. ... John Jack Doc Bradley (July 10, 1923 – January 11, 1994) was a US Navy corpsman during World War II, and one of the six men who took part in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. ... Flags of Our Fathers is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr. ... Image:Http://wldimages. ... Breach is a 2007 film starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, and Laura Linney. ... September 10 is the 253rd day of the Gregorian calendar (254th in leap years). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... One Life to Live (OLTL) is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the ABC television network since July 15, 1968. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 horror film. ... Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American feature film starring Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. ... Template:Infobox Film Fuckyou wikipedia, you are gay 54 is a 1998 film starring Salma Hayek, Ryan Phillippe, and Neve Campbell. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Ensemble Plot is a reference to a particular type of film that contains several different storylines involving a large cast of characters. ... Crash is an Academy Award-winning drama film directed by Paul Haggis. ... Flags of Our Fathers is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr. ... Breach is a 2007 film starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, and Laura Linney. ... Image:Http://wldimages. ... Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is an American former FBI agent who engaged in spying for the Soviet Union and Russia against the United States for a period of at least 15 years. ...

Biography

Early life

Phillippe (IPA pronunciation: [ˈfɪlɪpi]) was born in New Castle, Delaware to Richard Phillippe, a chemical technician for DuPont, and Susan, who ran a day care center in the family's house. He has three sisters, Kirsten, Lindsay and Katelyn. Phillippe was raised in the Catholic religion^[1] and attended New Castle Baptist Academy, where he played basketball and soccer, as well as earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do; he was also the Yearbook Editor in his senior year. At the age of fifteen, he became interested in an acting career, inspired by a neighbor's suggestion. A casting agent spotted Phillippe in a barbershop two years later, and began sending him to auditions in New York. Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Old New Castle Courthouse. ... This article is about the DuPont company. ... Day care is the care of a child during the day by a person other than the childs parents or legal guardians, often someone outside the childs immediate family. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Taekwondo is the Korean national sport and martial art, and is also one of the worlds most commonly practiced sports. ... A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually as a report or summary of statistics or facts. ... NY redirects here. ...

Career

Phillippe's acting career began with an appearance in ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. His character Billy Douglas, whom he played from 1992 to 1993, was the first gay teenager in a daily soap opera, causing a stir. After leaving the show, Phillippe moved to Los Angeles, where he appeared in a number of small parts in various television shows and movies, including 1996s White Squall. The American Broadcasting Company ( oftenly known as ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... One Life to Live (OLTL) is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the ABC television network since July 15, 1968. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D)  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... White squall may refer to: White Squall, 1996 dramatic film directed by Ridley Scott White squall, a meteorological phenomenon White Squall, a song by Stan Rogers Category: ...

Phillippe was cast in the 1997 horror film, I Know What You Did Last Summer, which co-starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt. The film was a success in October of that year, and led to Phillippe gaining wider renown and being cast in a few more high-profile films, including 54 in 1998 and 1999's Cruel Intentions, a modern retelling of the Choderlos de Laclos' novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The latter film, which also starred Phillippe's future wife, Reese Witherspoon, as well as his I Know What You Did Last Summer co-star, Sarah Michelle Gellar, was a success among its intended teenage audience, cementing Phillippe's ability to play characters that require sex appeal. DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 horror film. ... Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is a Golden Globe-nominated, Emmy Award-winning American actress. ... Freddie James Prinze (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his leading roles in teen-oriented films. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... Template:Infobox Film Fuckyou wikipedia, you are gay 54 is a 1998 film starring Salma Hayek, Ryan Phillippe, and Neve Campbell. ... Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American feature film starring Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. ... Pierre Ambrose Choderlos de Laclos, a French official and army general, was born on October 18, 1741 in Amiens, France and died in Taranto, Italy on September 5, 1803. ... Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) is a famous French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in 1782. ... Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976),[1] known simply as Reese Witherspoon, is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is a Golden Globe-nominated, Emmy Award-winning American actress. ...

In the years following, Phillippe appeared in the crime drama The Way of the Gun, starred as a famed software engineer in the thriller Antitrust, and co-starred in Robert Altman's critically-acclaimed Gosford Park, which featured several of Britain's most respected actors. Subsequently, Phillippe had supporting parts in the films Igby Goes Down (2002) and Crash (2005), which won the Oscar for Best Picture. His 2003 film, The I Inside, premiered on cable. Phillippe and his long-time friends Breckin Meyer, Seth Green, and David E. Siegal run a production company called Lucid Films. Phillippe is becoming more actively involved in his films as a producer. The Way of the Gun is a 2000 film, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro as two reckless and brutal gunfighters who kidnap a woman (Juliette Lewis) who is carrying the child of a powerful mobster, hoping to obtain a huge cash payoff. ... Software engineering (SE) is the profession concerned with specifying, designing, developing and maintaining software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, and other fields. ... Antitrust is a 2001 film directed by Peter Howitt and written by Howard Franklin. ... Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. ... Gosford Park is a 2001 film, directed by Robert Altman. ... Igby Goes Down is a 2002 film that follows the life of Igby Slocumb. ... Crash is an Academy Award-winning drama film directed by Paul Haggis. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... // The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards, awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which are voted on by others within the industry. ... Breckin Meyer Breckin Meyer (born May 7, 1974) is an American actor and producer. ... Seth Geshell Green (born February 8, 1974) is an American actor and television producer best known for his acting roles as Doctor Evils son Scott in the Austin Powers movies and as Oz in the Buffy TV series. ...

In 2006, Phillippe played real-life military medical corpsman John Bradley in the war film Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood and following the journey of the men who lifted the flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. Phillippe has said that the film was the "best experience" of his career because of its "personal meaning" to him,^[2] and that he would have "given [his] life" to fight in World War II, noting that both of his grandfathers fought in the war.^[3] Phillippe's role was positively received by film critic Richard Roeper, who specified that he thought it was Phillippe's best performance to date.^[4] Phillippe's most recent role was in the thriller Breach, in which he played FBI investigator Eric O'Neill opposite Chris Cooper. He has also completed filming on a number of films to be released in 2007, including Chaos, in which he plays a police officer, Five Fingers, a drama set in Morocco, and a war-themed film directed by Kimberly Peirce.^[3] John Jack Doc Bradley (July 10, 1923 – January 11, 1994) was a US Navy corpsman during World War II, and one of the six men who took part in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. ... The war film is a film genre that has to do with warfare, usually focusing on naval, air, or land battles, but sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training, or other related subjects. ... Flags of Our Fathers is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr. ... Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... For other uses, see Iwo Jima (disambiguation). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Richard Roeper (born October 17, 1959[1]) is a columnist/film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and, since September of 2000, has co-hosted Ebert & Roeper with fellow film critic Roger Ebert. ... Breach is a 2007 film starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, and Laura Linney. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Image:Http://wldimages. ... There are at least three people called Chris Cooper Chris Cooper (actor) - American actor Chris Cooper (radio) - Sports presenter on talkSPORT Chris Cooper 96 (tourism) - Aggieland This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Kimberly Peirce (born on September 8, 1967) is a film director, notable for her first and, thus far, only feature film, Boys Dont Cry (1999). ...

Personal life

In 1997, Phillippe attended a party given for actress Reese Witherspoon's 21st birthday. Upon meeting Witherspoon, Phillippe was immediately mesmerized and spent all night talking to the young actress, with Witherspoon telling Phillippe "I think you're my birthday present".^[5] The following morning, Phillippe left California to film I Know What You Did Last Summer, and subsequently began a long-distance courtship with Witherspoon by mail, e-mail, and telephone. When Phillippe returned to Los Angeles, the couple continued dating and became engaged in December 1998. The following year, the pair starred in Cruel Intentions together. Phillippe and Witherspoon married on June 5, 1999, in a small ceremony on a plantation near North Charleston, South Carolina. Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976),[1] known simply as Reese Witherspoon, is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 horror film. ... It has been suggested that first class mail be merged into this article or section. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The telephone is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American feature film starring Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. ... June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... // This article is about crop plantations. ... North Charleston is a city located in South Carolina. ...

On September 9, 1999, Phillippe and Witherspoon had a daughter named Ava Elizabeth, after Phillippe's grandmother. Their son, Deacon Reese (named after Phillippe's distant relative, Deacon Phillippe, a baseball player) was born on October 23, 2003. The family resided in a gated community in Brentwood, California. On October 30, 2006, Phillippe and Witherspoon released a statement announcing that they had decided to formally separate. After seven years of marriage, Witherspoon filed for divorce from her husband. He is also a fan of Mixed Martial Arts. September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Charles Louis Deacon Phillippe (originally Phillippi) (May 23, 1872-March 30, 1952) was a turn-of-the-century pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. ... A view of the playing field at Busch Memorial Stadium, St. ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Brentwood is a district in the West Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California, United States; it is sometimes confused with Brentwood, California in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Selected filmography

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References

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External links

• Ryan Phillippe at the Internet Movie Database