Biography

Ryan Phillippe was born on September 10, 1974 in New Castle, Delaware, to Susan (Thomas), a nurse, and Richard Phillippe, a chemical technician. He has three sisters, Kirsten, Lindsay, and Katelyn, and attended New Castle Baptist Academy. Ryan's acting career began with the soap opera On ne vit qu'une fois (1968). It was no small role. His character, Billy Douglas, was US daytime television's first gay teenager. Billy struggled with coming out issues and the town's anti-gay reactions. After several other television appearances and he began appearing in movies of his own, Nowhere (1997), Lame de fond (1996) Souviens-toi... l'été dernier (1997), Sexe intentions (1999), Crash (2005), Mémoires de nos pères (2006), and Stop-Loss (2008).

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Born in Newcastle, Delaware, his father, Richard was a chemist for Dupont and his mother used their home as a children's day centre . he had 3 sisters , 1 older and 2 younger. He met Reese Witherspoon in 1997 at her 21st birthday party and they were together 7 years during which time they had a daughter Ava born in 2000 and son Deacon born 2004. It was seeing Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke that opened his eyes to acting and the thought that he might be an actor. At 15 while getting his hair cut that a woman said to his mother that she had a friend in Philadelphia who had an agency and would very likely be interested in taking him on her book because of how he looked, Within months he was cast in tv commercials then after an audition in New York he got an offer to play a gay teenager in the day time soap One Life to Live in 1992 which lasted a year. He then moved to Los Angeles where got his first break when he was cast as a crew member in White Squall in 1996

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