Matthew Ryan Phillippe is an American actor and producer.
31 Facts About Ryan Phillippe
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Outside of film, Ryan Phillippe appeared in the lead role of Bob Lee Swagger on USA Network's Shooter and reprised his portrayal of Dixon Piper in the Peacock adaptation of MacGruber.
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Ryan Phillippe's mother, Susan, ran a day care center in the family's house; his father, Richard Phillippe, was a chemist.
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Ryan Phillippe has three sisters, and is of part French descent.
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Ryan Phillippe earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do in his youth.
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Ryan Phillippe's acting career began after being signed to Cathy Parker Management in Voorhees, New Jersey.
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Ryan Phillippe was cast in the 1997 horror film, I Know What You Did Last Summer.
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The film was a success and led to Ryan Phillippe gaining wider renown and being cast in a few more high-profile films, including 54 in 1998.
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Ryan Phillippe can be seen in the Marcy Playground music video "Comin' Up From Behind", which appears on the film's soundtrack.
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Subsequently Ryan Phillippe had supporting parts in the films Igby Goes Down and Crash, which won the Best Picture Oscar.
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In 2006, Ryan 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.
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Ryan Phillippe's performance was positively received by film critic Richard Roeper, who thought it was Phillippe's best to date.
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Ryan Phillippe has since commented that he believes Cooper to be "the best actor America has to offer".
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Ryan Phillippe 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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Two days later, on April 19,2010, Ryan Phillippe co-hosted WWE Raw, in support of MacGruber.
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That same year, Ryan Phillippe starred in the Canadian and 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.
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In mid-2010, Ryan 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.
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Ryan Phillippe filmed his next project, the heist action film Setup, in December 2010 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Ryan Phillippe subsequently began work on another movie, Straight A's, in August 2011.
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In 2012, Ryan Phillippe focused on his directorial debut, Catch Hell, an indie thriller in which Ryan 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.
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Ryan Phillippe has said that the film is based partly on his and his friends's life experiences but is partly meant to be "a fun scary movie in the vein of Misery".
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In October 2013, Ryan Phillippe began filming the action thriller Reclaim in Puerto Rico.
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Ryan Phillippe was attached to a number of possible future film roles, including Chronicle, a film that was to have been directed by Jay Alaimo that would have seen him in a story "about two childhood friends who reunite to launch the biggest marijuana dealership in New York City".
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Ryan Phillippe 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.
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In 2015, Ryan Phillippe was cast in the lead role of Bob Lee Swagger on the USA Network thriller drama series Shooter, which premiered in November 2016.
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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.
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In 1997, Ryan Phillippe met actress Reese Witherspoon at a party for her 21st birthday.
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In light of the couple's lack of a prenuptial agreement, she requested that the court refuse to grant spousal support to Ryan Phillippe and asked for joint legal custody and sole physical custody of the pair's two children.
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Ryan Phillippe filed for joint physical custody of the children on May 15,2007, and did not seek any spousal support.
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Ryan Phillippe began dating model and actress Alexis Knapp in May 2010; they ended their relationship in September that same year.
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In September 2017, Elsie Hewitt, an ex-girlfriend of Ryan Phillippe, filed a lawsuit against him for allegedly punching her, kicking her, and throwing her down stairs.