Ron Livingston Biography

Ronald Joseph "Ron" Livingston (born June 5, 1967) is an American film and television actor. His roles include disaffected corporate employee Peter Gibbons in the film Office Space, sardonic writer Jack Berger 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 an ad spokesman for Sprint Nextel. In 2009 he portrayed flight engineer Maddux Donner in the series Defying Gravity, which was cancelled after a single season.

Early life

Livingston was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the son of Linda (née Rinas), a Lutheran pastor, and Kurt Livingston, an aerospace/electronics engineer. His younger brother John is also an actor; sister Jennifer Livingston and brother-in-law Mike Thompson are both TV news personalities at WKBT in La Crosse, 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 had his first acting experience at Theatre Cedar Rapids after being introduced to the group during a school job shadowing. Livingston relocated to Chicago and became involved in the local theater scene.

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 also appeared 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 teachers in Winter Solstice and Pretty Persuasion (both 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.

On November 9, 2007, the indie film Holly premiered, starring Ron Livingston in his first turn to film drama. It 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.

In 2010, Livingston co-starred in the Jay Roach comedy Dinner for Schmucks. On February 26th 2013, Entertainment Weekly confirmed that he would be joining the cast of HBO's Boardwalk Empire for the fourth season.

Personal life

Livingston and his Standoff co-star Rosemarie DeWitt began a relationship after meeting each other on the show. After dating for three years, they were married on November 2, 2009, in San Francisco. He was previously engaged to actress Lisa Sheridan.

In May 2013, Livingston and wife Rosemarie announced that they had adopted a girl, Gracie James Livingston, who was born on April 29, 2013.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Straight Talk	Soldier
1994	Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
1995	The Low Life	Chad
1996	Swingers	Rob
1997	Campfire Tales	Rick
1999	Two Ninas	Marty Sachs
1999	Office Space	Peter Gibbons
1999	Body Shots	Trent
2000	Beat	Allen Ginsberg
2002	Buying the Cow	Tyler Carter Bellows
2002	Adaptation.	Marty Bowen
2003	King of the Ants	Eric Gatley
2003	44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out	Donnie Anderson
2003	The Cooler	Larry Sokolov
2004	Little Black Book	Derek
2005	Pretty Persuasion	Mr. Anderson
2005	Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story	Lackluster Video Clerk
2005	Winter Solstice	Mr. Bricker
2006	Relative Strangers	Richard Clayton
2006	American Crude	Johnny
2006	Holly	Patrick
2007	Music Within	Richard Pimentel
2009	The Time Traveler's Wife	Gomez
2010	Dinner for Schmucks	Caldwell
2010	Keyboard Cat Redux	Cat
2010	Going the Distance'	Will
2012	Game Change	Mark Wallace
2012	10 Years	Paul
2012	The Odd Life of Timothy Green	Franklin Crudstaff
2013	The Conjuring	Roger Perron
2013	The Pretty One	Charles
2013	Fort Bliss	Richard
2013	Drinking Buddies	Chris
2013	Parkland	James P. Hosty

Television

Year	Title	Role	Episode
1995	JAG	Scimitar	1 episode
1996	Townies	Ryan
2001	Band of Brothers	Captain Lewis Nixon	TV miniseries
2001"2002	The Practice	Assistant D.A. Alan Lowe
2002"2003	Sex and the City	Jack Berger
2005	House	Dr. Sebastian Charles
2006	Standoff	Matt Flannery
2006	Brothers in Arms: The Untold Story of the 502	hosting as himself	History Channel documentary
2006	Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King	Howard Fornoy	"The End of the Whole Mess"
2009	Defying Gravity	Maddux Donner
2009	WWII in HD	Voice of Lt. Charles Scheffel
2013	Boardwalk Empire	Roy Phillips