Ron Livingston
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| Born | Ronald Joseph Livingston June 5, 1968 Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
Ronald Joseph Livingston (born June 5, 1968)[1] is an American film and television actor. His roles include a disaffected corporate employee in the film Office Space, a sardonic writer in a short-term relationship with Carrie Bradshaw in the TV show Sex and the City, and Captain Lewis Nixon in the miniseries Band of Brothers. In 2006, he starred as FBI negotiator Matt Flannery in the FOX series Standoff, co-starring Rosemarie DeWitt, and he was the new spokesman for Sprint Nextel.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Livingston was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the son of Linda, a Lutheran pastor, and Kurt Livingston, an aerospace engineer.[2] His younger brother, John, is also an actor; sister Jennifer Livingston is a TV news personality at WKBT in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. He graduated from Marion High School in Marion, Iowa and attended Yale University, where he received B.A. degrees in Theater and English. Livingston relocated to Chicago and became involved in the city's theater scene.
[edit] Career
Livingston's first film role was in 1992, in Dolly Parton's Straight Talk. He moved to Los Angeles and was cast in supporting roles in Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade and The Low Life. Livingston landed his first role in a major film in 1996's Swingers. He played the male lead in Office Space, which co-starred Jennifer Aniston and was written and directed by Mike Judge. He gave his first serious preformance in HBO's Band of Brothers as Captain Lewis Nixon opposite Donnie Wahlberg and Damian Lewis. Going beyond nice-guy roles, Livingston played a Hollywood agent in Adaptation (2002); a weaselly Ivy League upstart to Alec Baldwin's casino boss in The Cooler (2003); and an unfortunate English teacher in Pretty Persuasion (2005). He also appeared as Jack Berger, Carrie's boyfriend in the sixth season of Sex and the City, as well as in the episode "TB or Not TB" of House.
Sprint Nextel announced on October 21, 2006, that as part of their new "Power Up" campaign, they will use Livingston as a "straightforward, relatable guy who finds unconventional ways to talk about Sprint's wireless services".[3]
November 9th, 2007, the indie film HOLLY premiered, starring Ron Livingston in his first turn to drama. HOLLY tells the story of a Vietnamese girl trafficked into the sex trade in Cambodia. Ron plays Patrick, a shady card shark who becomes determined to save Holly from her ill-destined fate.
Summer 2007 saw Livingston on the off-Broadway stage in the world premiere of Neil LaBute's In A Dark Dark House, produced by MCC Theater, alongside Frederick Weller and Louisa Krause. The show ran May 16 through July 27, 2007 at The Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City.
[edit] Filmography
- The Time Traveler's Wife (2008) - Gomez
- Music Within (2007) - Richard Pimentel
- Holly (2006) - Patrick
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes: The End Of The Whole Mess (TV) (2006) - Howard Fornoy
- Brothers in Arms: The Untold Story of the 502 (History Channel Documentary) (2006) - Hosting as Himself
- Standoff (TV) (2006) - Matt Flannery
- House (TV) (2005) - Dr. Sebastian Charles in "TB or Not TB"
- Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story-Lackluster Video Clerk
- Relative Strangers (2005) - Richard Clayton
- Pretty Persuasion (2005) - Mr. Anderson
- Little Black Book (2004) - Derek
- The Cooler (2003) - Larry Sokolov
- 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003) Donnie Anderson
- King of the Ants (2003) - Eric Gatley
- Sex and the City (TV) (2002 - 2003) - Jack Berger
- Adaptation. (2002) - Marty Bowen
- Buying the Cow (2002) - Tyler Carter Bellows
- The Practice (TV) (2001-2002) - Assistant D.A. Alan Lowe
- Band of Brothers (TV) (2001) - Captain Lewis Nixon
- Beat (2000) - Allen Ginsberg
- Body Shots (1999) - Trent
- Office Space (1999) - Peter Gibbons
- Two Ninas (1999) - Marty Sachs
- Campfire Tales (1997) - Rick
- Swingers (1996) - Rob
