Ryan Phillippe
ActingMatthew Ryan Phillippe (/ˈfɪlɪpi/; born September 10, 1974) is an American actor. After appearing as Billy Douglas on the soap opera One Life to Live (1992–1993) and making his feature film debut in Crimson Tide (1995), he came to prominence in the late 1990s with starring roles in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), 54 (1998), Playing by Heart (1998), and Cruel Intentions (1999). Throughout the 2000s and beyond, he took on a range of roles in films such as The Way of the Gun (2000), Antitrust (2001), Gosford Park (2001), Igby Goes Down (2002), The I Inside (2003), Crash (2004), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Breach (2007), Stop-Loss (2008), MacGruber (2010), The Bang Bang Club (2010), and The Lincoln Lawyer (2011). Outside of film, Phillippe appeared in the lead role of Bob Lee Swagger on USA Network's Shooter (2016–2018) and reprised his portrayal of Dixon Piper in the Peacock adaptation of MacGruber (2021). In 1997, Phillippe met actress Reese Witherspoon at a party for her 21st birthday. Phillippe and Witherspoon, who was six months pregnant, married on June 5, 1999. Their daughter Eva was born in 1999 and their son Deacon was born in 2003. On October 30, 2006, the couple released a statement announcing that they were formally separating. Witherspoon filed for divorce on November 8, 2006, citing irreconcilable differences as the cause. The couple's marriage officially ended on October 5, 2007, with final divorce arrangements settled on June 13, 2008, according to court documents. They shared joint custody of their children. He began dating model and actress Alexis Knapp in May 2010; they ended their relationship in September that same year. After their breakup, Knapp discovered that she was pregnant by Phillippe and gave birth to a daughter in 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryan Phillippe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Cruel Intentions
Sébastian Valmont
One Mile: Chapter One
Danny
Gosford Park
Henry Denton
Crash
Officer Tom Hansen
One Mile: Chapter Two
Danny
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Barry Cox
Crimson Tide
Seaman Grattam
Chaos
Det. Shane Dekker
Return to Sender
UPS Delivery Guy
The Lincoln Lawyer
Louis Roulet
Filmography — Acting
Cruel Intentions
Sébastian Valmont
One Mile: Chapter One
Danny
Gosford Park
Henry Denton
Crash
Officer Tom Hansen
One Mile: Chapter Two
Danny
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Barry Cox
Crimson Tide
Seaman Grattam
Chaos
Det. Shane Dekker
Return to Sender
UPS Delivery Guy
The Lincoln Lawyer
Louis Roulet
Prey
Andrew
Flags of Our Fathers
John 'Doc' Bradley
54
Shane O'Shea
Wish Upon
Jonathan Shannon
Breach
Eric O'Neill
Nowhere
Shad
White Squall
Gil Martin
One Shot
Jack Yorke
Straight A's
Scott
The Locksmith
Miller Graham
MacGruber
Piper
Stop-Loss
Brandon King
Setup
Vincent
American Murderer
Special Agent Lance Leising
Antitrust
Milo Hoffman
The Way of the Gun
Mr. Parker
Franklyn
Preest
The 2nd
Vic Davis
Brothers by Blood
Charley
Playing by Heart
Keenan
The I Inside
Simon Cable
Igby Goes Down
Oliver
The Patient
The Patient
Collide
Hunter
Homegrown
Harlan Dykstra
Reclaim
Steven
The Bang Bang Club
Greg Marinovich
Little Boy Blue
Jimmy West
Lady of the Manor
Tanner / Lord Wadsworth
Catch Hell
Reagan Pearce
Miranda's Victim
John Flynn
My Darling Vivian
Self (archive footage)
Company Man
Petrov
Saint Clare
Detective Timmons
Summit Fever
Leo
Isolated
Narrator (voice)
Revenge for Jolly!
Bachmeier
The Making of Gosford Park
Self
Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
Robert Fowler
Lifeform
Private Ryan
Five Fingers
Martijn
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
Tom Redman
The Circle
Victor
Iwo Jima: From Combat to Comrades
Narrator (voice)
Alive
Mark Escher
Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Outlaw
Self
Reach
Zack