Ryan Phillippe
Matthew Ryan Phillippe ( born September 10, 1974 in New Castle, Delaware ) is an American actor.
Life
Phillippe is the son of a chemist Richard Phillippe and his wife Susan. He has three sisters.
His acting career began with the U.S. soap opera love, lies, passion, in which he appeared from 1992 to 1993. The it represents character Billy Douglas was the first gay in a daily soap, which attracted nationwide attention. In the following years, he had more appearances in television productions, so among other things, in the series Chicago Hope and Due South.
In Tony Scott's submarine thriller Crimson Tide, he was seen in 1995 for the first time on the big screen in a cameo role. He became known to the general public through movies such as I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Studio 54 (1998), Cruel Intentions (1999), Gosford Park ( 2001), Igby Goes Down! (2002) and L.A. crash (2004). The last time he played the lead role in The Bang Bang Club (2010) by Steven Silver. He plays the role of Greg Marinovich, a Pulitzer Prize - price war photographers. On television, he was in the fifth and final season of the drama series Damages - to see the web of power in a Leading Role.
Phillippe was married since 1999 to actress Reese Witherspoon, with whom he has two children. They played together in Cruel Intentions. They were divorced on 5 October 2007. Since the filming of Stop Loss, he was romantically involved with Australian actress Abbie Cornish. The end of February, 2010, the couple announced its separation. For a brief relationship with Alexis Knapp comes his third child.