Matthew Ryan Phillippe is an American actor. 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 2010, he 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. He is married to Reese Witherspoon.
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Matthew Ryan Phillippe is an American actor. 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, Crash, Flags of Our Fathers, Breach, Stop-Loss, MacGruber, and The Lincoln Lawyer. In 2010, he 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. He made his SNL debut on April 17, 2010, along with first-time musical performer Kesha. He also co-hosted WWE Raw with Jonathan Swift and Charo on April 19, 2010. He is married to Reese Witherspoon. He has three sisters and is of French descent. His mother, Susan, ran a day care center in the family’s house; his father, Richard Phillippes, was a chemist. He graduated from Barbizon in Wilmington, Delaware. He was born in New Castle, Delaware, and has a brother and a sister, both of whom are also actors. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his family. He works as a personal trainer and has appeared in numerous television shows, including The Voice, The Voice Kids, and Sons of Anarchy.
He previously worked as an executive at The Gap, a clothing company, and as a director of a music video production company. He had a role in the film The Way of the Gun, in which he played a software engineer. He appeared in the TV series 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. In 2003, he starred in The I Inside, which premiered on cable. In 2006 he played real-life Navy corpsman John Bradley in the war film Flags of our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood. In 2008, he was a rare comedic role as Lt. Piper Piperber, a Saturday Night Live skit of the same name, on the US and Canada version of the show. In 2009, he co-starred in the Canadian production of The BangBang Club, which tells the story of four South African photographers, whose images were taken by a South African photographer. He starred in the support role of a police officer in Chaos, a drama set in Morocco, Five Fingers, and Kimberly Peirce’s Iraq war film Stop-loss.
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