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Matthew Ryan Phillippe (born September 10, 1974) is an American actor.

Early life

Phillippe (pronounced Fil-lih-pee) 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 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 15, 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.

Career

Phillippe's 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 appeared in a number of small parts in various television shows and movies, including White Squall
(1996).

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.

In the years following, Phillippe appeared in the crime comedy 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 England's most respected actors. Subsequently, Phillippe had supporting parts in the films Igby Goes Down
(2002) and Crash
(2005), which was one of the best-reviewed films of its year and 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.

Phillippe recently completed filming on a number of films to be released in 2006 or 2007; Chaos, in which he plays a police officer; Five Fingers, a drama set in Morocco; Breach, which chronicles the true story of FBI agent Eric O'Neill, and 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.

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Actors - Ryan Phillippe

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