Ryan Phillippe Biography and Profile

Biography

Nama : Ryan Phillippe
Birth Name : Matthew Ryan Phillippe
Birth Date : 09/10/1974
Birth Place : New Castle, Delaware, USA
Height : 5' 9"
Sex : M
Nationality : American
Occupation : Actor
Father : Richard Phillippe
Mother : Susan Phillippe
Spouse : Reese Witherspoon (actress, 5-Jun-99 - October 2006)
Claim Fame : As Barry William Cox in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997)

Ryan Phillippe (pronounced Fil-lih-pee) (born September 10, 1974 in New Castle, Delaware) is an American actor.

His first role was as Billy Douglas, daytime television's first gay teenager, in the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. After leaving the show, he moved to Los Angeles where he struggled for a time before landing a number of small parts in various television shows and movies, including White Squall (1996).

Later that year he played the part of Barry Cox in I Know What You Did Last Summer with Jennifer Love Hewitt. The movie was a summer hit and lead to a starring role in 54 in 1998, alongside Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, and Breckin Meyer.

In 1999, Phillippe landed the role of Sebastian Valmont in Cruel Intentions, a modern retelling of the Choderlos de Laclos' novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The movie was both a critical and box office hit amongst its intended teenage audience. This was the second time that Phillippe had worked alongside television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, Sarah Michelle Gellar.

In 2000 Phillippe starred opposite Benicio Del Toro in The Way of the Gun, followed with his role as a wizard software engineer in the high-tech thriller Antitrust. In 2001, Ryan co-starred in Robert Altman's critically-acclaimed Gosford Park, with several of England's most respected actors, including Maggie Smith, Derek Jacobi, Helen Mirren, and Emily Watson.

Ryan plans to forge a career as a producer with his production company, Lucid Films.