Ron Livingston
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| Ron Livingston | |
| Birth name | Ron Livingston |
| Born | June 5, 1968 (age 38) Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
Ron Livingston (born June 5, 1968) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his lead role as a disaffected corporate employee in the cult classic Office Space. As of fall 2006, he is starring as FBI negotiator Matt Flannery in the FOX series Standoff, co-starring Rosemarie DeWitt and is the new spokesman for Sprint.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Livingston was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and grew up wrestling. He graduated from Marion High School in Marion, Iowa. He attended Yale University, where he received B.A. degrees in Theatre and English. Livingston relocated to Chicago and became involved in the city's thriving theater scene.
His mother is a Lutheran minister and his father is an aerospace engineer. His younger brother, John Livingston, is also an actor; sister Jennifer Livingston is a TV news personality at WKBT in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
[edit] Career
His first film role was in 1992, in Dolly Parton's Straight Talk. He moved to Los Angeles and received supporting roles in Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade and The Low Life. Director Paul W.S. Anderson had wanted him to play the role of Goro in 1995's Mortal Kombat, but the prosthetics required to make him taller and add two arms were too expensive to justify.
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. His first serious role came in HBO's Band of Brothers as Captain Lewis Nixon. Going beyond nice-guy roles, Livingston played a shark-like 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 Ron as a "Straightforward, relatable guy who finds unconventional ways to talk about Sprint's wireless services." Many of his fans have expressed that the ads bring question to the credibility of his "bumbling but harmless" charisma. [citation needed]
[edit] Selected filmography
- 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) - host
- Standoff (TV) (2006) - Matt
- House (TV) (2005) - Sebastian Charles
- Pretty Persuasion (2005) - Mr. Anderson
- Little Black Book (2004) - Derek
- The Cooler (2003) - Larry Sokolov
- 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
- Body Shots (1999) - Trent
- Office Space (1999) - Peter Gibbons
- Two Ninas (1999) - Marty Sachs
- Swingers (1996) - Rob
