Ryan Phillippe
Matthew Ryan Phillippe (/ˈfɪlɪpi/; born September 10, 1974) is an American actor. After appearing as Billy Douglas on the soap opera One Life to Live, he came to fame in the late 1990s with starring roles in films including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and 54. In the 2000s, he appeared in several films, including Gosford Park (2001), Crash (2004), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Breach (2007), Stop-Loss (2008), MacGruber (2010), and The Lincoln Lawyer (2011). In 2010, Phillippe played photographer Greg Marinovich in The Bang Bang Club, and then in the lead role of Bob Lee Swagger in the USA Network thriller drama Shooter (2016–2018).[1]
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Born | Matthew Ryan Phillippe September 10, 1974 New Castle, Delaware, U.S. |
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Years active | 1992–present |
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Children | 3 |
Early life
Phillippe was born in New Castle, Delaware.[2] His mother, Susan, ran a day care center in the family's house; his father, Richard Phillippe, was a chemist. Phillippe has three sisters[3] and is of French descent.[4] He graduated from Barbizon in Wilmington, Delaware.[5]
Career
Early career (1990–1999)
Phillippe's acting career began after being signed to Cathy Parker Management in Voorhees, New Jersey. Shortly after, he made an appearance in the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. His character Billy Douglas, whom he played from 1992 to 1993, was the first gay teenager on a daytime soap opera.[6] After leaving the show, Phillippe moved to Los Angeles, where he appeared in a number of small parts in various television series including Matlock, Due South, the TV miniseries The Secrets of Lake Success, and movies, including the 1995 film Crimson Tide and the 1996 film White Squall.
He 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, and led to Phillippe gaining wider renown and being cast in a few more high-profile films, including 54 in 1998 opposite Neve Campbell, Salma Hayek and Mike Myers. In 1999 he starred in Cruel Intentions, a modern retelling of the Choderlos de Laclos novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 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. It was a success among its intended teenage audience, cementing Phillippe's ability to play characters that require sex appeal. Phillippe can also be seen in the Marcy Playground music video "Comin' Up From Behind", which appears on the film's soundtrack.
Critical success and later work (2000–2011)
In the years following, he 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 Gosford Park, which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture. 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.
In 2006, Phillippe played real-life Navy corpsman John Bradley in the war film Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood and following the journey of the United States Marines 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,[7] and that he would have "given [his] life" to fight in World War II, noting that both of his grandfathers fought in the war.[8] His performance was positively received by film critic Richard Roeper, who thought it was Phillippe's best performance to date.[9] Phillippe's next role was in the thriller Breach, in which he played FBI investigator Eric O'Neill opposite Chris Cooper. He has since commented that he believes Cooper to be "the best actor America has to offer".[10] He then starred in Chaos, in which he plays a police officer, Five Fingers, a drama set in Morocco, Kimberly Peirce's Iraq war film Stop-Loss, and the futuristic Franklyn.
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Next up for Phillippe was a rare comedic role as Lt. Dixon Piper in MacGruber, a film based on the Saturday Night Live (SNL) skit of the same name. It was released in the US and Canada on May 21, 2010.[11][12] As part of the film's promotion, Phillippe made his SNL hosting debut on April 17, 2010, along with first-time musical performer Kesha.[13] Two days later, on April 19, 2010, Phillippe co-hosted WWE Raw with Jonathan Swift and Charo, also in support of MacGruber.[14]
That same year, Phillippe starred in the Canadian/South African production The Bang-Bang Club, which tells the real-life story of the Bang-Bang Club, four South African photographers whose images documented the bloody end of apartheid.[15] Phillippe stars as Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Greg Marinovich. Filming for the movie took place in South Africa, beginning in March 2009. Phillippe described the filming process as "really run-and-gun. There were no comforts, and I actually appreciate that." He noted that the experience affected him, explaining that "we were shooting during the day in Soweto, and it was an endless procession of funerals—death is so common. Kids there have no quality of life. It has made me want to get more involved in Africa-based charities."[16] An early cut of the film was shown at Cannes Film Festival in May 2009,[17] with the final version shown at Cannes in May 2010.[18] The film officially premiered in September 2010 at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. The US rights to the movie were picked up by Tribeca Film,[19] which premiered the movie at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival and opened the movie in limited release on April 22, 2011.[20]
In the summer of 2010, Phillippe began filming the adaptation of popular crime novel The Lincoln Lawyer, taking on the role of Louis Roulet, a wealthy Los Angeles playboy accused of a crime for which his culpability is unclear. The movie, which also stars Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei and William H. Macy, opened on March 18, 2011,[21] and was generally well received by critics, scoring 82% on Rotten Tomatoes as of late March 2011.[22] Phillippe filmed his next project, heist action film Setup, in December 2010 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.[23] Also starring Bruce Willis, Jenna Dewan, and 50 Cent, the movie focuses on a group of young men from Detroit whose attempt at a diamond heist goes awry and brings them into conflict with a mob boss.[24] The movie had a straight-to-DVD release on September 20, 2011.[25]
Phillippe next filmed the dramatic dark comedy Revenge for Jolly!, alongside Elijah Wood, Kristen Wiig and Adam Brody, in the summer of 2011. The movie, which tells the story of a man set on finding his dog's murderer, premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.[26][27] Phillippe subsequently began work on another movie, Straight A's, in August 2011.[28] Filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana, the movie stars Phillippe as a man who has been in and out of rehab for years and is now haunted by his mother's ghost, and also features Anna Paquin and Luke Wilson.[29]
Return to television and focus on directing and producing (2012–present)
Starting in November 2011, Phillippe spent several months filming a 10-episode arc on the fifth and final season of the critically acclaimed TV show Damages.[30][31][32] Playing Channing McClaren, a Julian Assange-like character,[33] it was his first regular TV role since his breakout part on One Life to Live.[34] The season aired from July to September 2012.[35][36][37]
In 2012, Phillippe focused on his directorial debut, Catch Hell, an indie thriller in which Phillippe stars as a fading film actor who must devise a creative escape after he is kidnapped and tortured while making a movie in Shreveport, Louisiana. In addition to directing, co-producing, and starring in the film, Phillippe also co-wrote the script with Joe Gossett.[38][39] Phillippe has said that the film is based partly on the life experiences of himself and his friends (including the filming of Straight A's in Shreveport in 2011), but is partly meant to be "a fun scary movie in the vein of Misery". Filming took place on location in Shreveport in the fall of 2012.[40] The movie was released on October 10, 2014.[41][42]
In October 2013, Phillippe began filming the action thriller Reclaim in Puerto Rico. The movie features Phillippe as an American man who travels to Puerto Rico with his wife (played by Rachelle Lefevre) to adopt an orphan from Haiti. After a confrontation with a local (played by John Cusack), the child vanishes.[43][44] Reclaim was released on September 19, 2014.[45]
In May 2014, ABC picked up the pilot for Secrets and Lies, which was shot in Charlotte, North Carolina in early 2014.[46] The 10-episode mystery series debuted on March 1, 2015, as a midseason entry in the 2014–15 season. It is based on the Australian series of the same name and stars Phillippe as a family man who becomes a prime murder suspect after he discovers the body of a child.[47]
Phillippe has also been attached to a number of possible future film roles, including Chronicle, a film to be directed by Jay Alaimo that will see Phillippe, Justin Long and John Hawkes in a story "about two childhood friends who reunite to launch the biggest marijuana dealership in New York City".[48]
Phillippe, Breckin Meyer, Seth Green and David E. Siegal run a production company called Lucid Films.[8] In 2010, Phillippe and Meyer began "getting a show going for Showtime", serving as executive producers.[16] The comedy, Heavy and Rolling, tells the story of a Manhattan towncar driver who assumes different identities as he moves towards madness.[49] Phillippe also served as executive producer and narrator on Isolated, a documentary that follows five surfers as they travel to remote New Guinea in search of untouched waves.[50][51] The documentary premiered in January 2013 at the 2013 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.[52][53]
In 2015, Phillippe was cast in the lead role of Bob Lee Swagger on the USA Network thriller drama series Shooter, which premiered in the fall of 2016.[1]
In February 2020, Phillippe was announced in the role of Cody Hoyt in the ABC crime drama series Big Sky which was created by David E. Kelley.[54]
Personal life
In 1997, Phillippe met actress Reese Witherspoon at a party for her 21st birthday.[55] The following year, the pair starred together in Cruel Intentions. Phillippe and Witherspoon married on June 5, 1999, in a small ceremony at Old Wide Awake Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, when Witherspoon was six months pregnant.[56]
Phillipe and Witherspoon's daughter Ava Elizabeth Phillippe, named after actress Ava Gardner, was born on September 9, 1999[57][56][58] Their son was born in 2003.[59]
On October 30, 2006, Phillippe and Witherspoon released a statement announcing that they were formally separating.[60] Witherspoon filed for divorce on November 8, 2006, citing irreconcilable differences as the cause.[61] In light of the couple's lack of a prenuptial agreement, she requested that the court refuse to grant spousal support to Phillippe, and asked for joint legal custody and sole physical custody of the pair's two children. Phillippe filed for joint physical custody of the children on May 15, 2007, and did not seek any spousal support.[62] The couple's marriage officially ended on October 5, 2007, with final divorce arrangements settled on June 13, 2008, according to court documents. Phillippe and Witherspoon share joint custody of their children.[63]
Phillippe began dating Australian actress Abbie Cornish in 2007 after meeting on the set of Stop-Loss.[64] They split up in February 2010.[65] Phillippe subsequently dated model/actress Alexis Knapp in the summer of 2010,[66] before splitting in September 2010.[67] After their breakup, Knapp discovered that she was pregnant, and gave birth to their daughter in July 2011.[68] Phillippe was present during the birth.[69]
Phillippe began dating law student Paulina Slagter in 2011.[70] They ended their relationship in 2016.[71] In March 2017, Slagter filed a harassment report with the LAPD after Phillippe had been harassing her via text messages.[72]
In September 2017, Elsie Hewitt, an ex-girlfriend of Phillippe, had filed a lawsuit against him for allegedly punching, kicking, and throwing her down stairs.[73] Hewitt was granted a restraining order by the LAPD stating Phillippe could not come within 100 yards of her.[74] In October 2019, the case was settled.[75]
Phillippe earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do in his youth.[16]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1995 | Crimson Tide | Seaman Grattam | |
1996 | White Squall | Gil Martin | |
1996 | Lifeform | Private Ryan | |
1997 | Nowhere | Shad | |
Little Boy Blue | Jimmy West | ||
I Know What You Did Last Summer | Barry William Cox | ||
1998 | 54 | Shane O'Shea | |
Playing by Heart | Keenan | ||
Homegrown | Harlan Dykstra | ||
1999 | Cruel Intentions | Sebastian Valmont | |
2000 | Way of the Gun | Parker | |
Company Man | Petrov | ||
2001 | Antitrust | Milo Hoffman | |
Gosford Park | Henry Denton | ||
2002 | Igby Goes Down | Ollie Slocumb | |
2003 | The I Inside | Simon Cable | |
2004 | Crash | Tommy Hansen | |
2006 | Flags of Our Fathers | John "Doc" Bradley | |
Five Fingers | Martijn | ||
Chaos | Shane Dekker | ||
2007 | Breach | Eric O'Neill | |
2008 | Stop-Loss | Brandon King | |
2009 | Franklyn | Jonathan Preest / David Esser | |
2010 | MacGruber | Dixon Piper | |
2011 | The Bang Bang Club | Greg Marinovich | |
The Lincoln Lawyer | Louis Roulet | ||
Setup | Vincent | ||
Revenge for Jolly! | Bachmeier | ||
2013 | Straight A's | Scott | |
2014 | Reclaim | Steven | |
Catch Hell | Reagan Pearce | Writer, director, producer | |
2015 | Return to Sender | UPS delivery guy | |
2017 | Wish Upon | Jonathan Shannon | |
2020 | The 2nd | Vic Davis | |
2020 | Brothers by Blood | Charley | |
TBA | American Murderer | Lance Leising | Post-production |
TBA | Lady of the Manor | Tanner Wadsworth | Post-production |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1992–1993 | One Life to Live | Billy Douglas | 13 episodes |
1993 | The Secrets of Lake Success | Stew Atkins | Miniseries |
1994 | Matlock | Michael | Episode: "The Scandal" |
The Case of the Grimacing Governor | Robert Fowler | Television film | |
Due South | Del Porter | Episode: "The Gift of the Wheelman" | |
1995 | Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare | Tom Redman | Television film |
1996 | Chicago Hope | David Holgren | Episode: "Women on the Verge" |
The Outer Limits | Rusty Dobson | Episode: "Straight and Narrow" | |
2000 | King of the Hill | Wally | Voice role; episode: "Twas the Nut Before Christmas" |
2010 | WWE Raw | Dixon Piper | 1 episode |
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time | Handsome guy | Episode: "Powdered Doughnuts Make Me Go Nuts" | |
Saturday Night Live | Host / Various | Episode: "Ryan Phillippe / Ke$ha" | |
2012 | Damages | Channing McClaren | 10 episodes |
2012, 2014 | The Eric Andre Show | Himself | Episodes: "Ryan Phillippe", "Naturi Naughton; Ryan Philippe" |
2014 | Men at Work | Himself | Episode: "I Take Thee, Gibbs" |
2015 | Secrets and Lies | Ben Crawford | Main role (season 1) |
Drunk History | Benjamin Hayes | Episode: "Los Angeles" | |
Robot Chicken | George Taylor / Reggie Mantle | Episode: "Cake Pillow" | |
2016–2018 | Shooter | Bob Lee Swagger | Lead role and producer |
2016 | SmackDown Live | Himself | 1 episode |
2017 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Milton Boyle | Episode: "The Bank Job" |
Famous in Love | Himself | Episode: "Fifty Shades of Red"[76] | |
2019 | Historical Roasts | Julius Caesar | Episode: "Cleopatra" |
2020 | Will & Grace | Himself | Episode: "Bi-Plane" |
2020 | Big Sky | Cody Hoyt | Main role |
Music videos
Year | Title | Artist | Role |
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1999 | "Every You Every Me" | Placebo | |
2004 | "Hey Ya!" | Outkast | TV Host |
Accolades
Year | Group | Award | Work | Result |
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1998 | Blockbuster Entertainment Awards | Favorite Supporting Actor: Horror | I Know What You Did Last Summer | Nominated |
1999 | Golden Raspberry Awards | Worst Actor | 54 | Nominated |
Teen Choice Awards | Film – Choice Actor | Cruel Intentions | Nominated | |
Film – Sexiest Love Scene (Shared with Reese Witherspoon) | Cruel Intentions | Nominated | ||
2000 | Golden Slate (Hungary) | Best Actor in a Leading Role | 54 | Nominated |
MTV Movie Awards | Best Male Performance | Cruel Intentions | Nominated | |
2001 | Teen Choice Awards | Film – Choice Actor | Antitrust | Nominated |
2002 | Critics Choice Awards | Best Acting Ensemble | Gosford Park | Won |
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Ensemble Cast | Gosford Park | Won | |
Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Ensemble | Gosford Park | Won | |
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Acting Ensemble | Gosford Park | Nominated | |
Satellite Awards | Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble | Gosford Park | Won | |
Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture | Gosford Park | Won | |
2005 | Gotham Awards | Best Ensemble Cast | Crash | Nominated |
2006 | Black Reel Awards | Best Ensemble | Crash | Won |
Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | Crash | Won | |
2008 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice Movie Actor: Drama | Stop-Loss | Nominated |
2009 | Prism Awards | Performance in a Feature Film | Stop-Loss | Nominated |
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