Matthew Ryan Phillippe was born on September 10, 1974, in New Castle, Delaware. He has three sisters: Kirsten, Lindsay, and Katelyn. Ryan's career began in 1992 in his boundry breaking role as Billy Douglass on One Life To Live, daytime television's first gay teenager. After One Life To Live he did various tv movies guest starring roles including "Lake Success" on NBC and "Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare".
In 1996 Ryan got his big movie break in White Squall where he played Gill Martin and became friends with Ethan Embry and Scott Wolf. His next two movies weren't as easy to see. They were "Little Boy Blue" and "Homegrown" which where on limited release. His next movie was 54, which told tthe story of a 70's night club called Studio 54. It starred Mike Myers, Never Campbell, and Salma Hayek. He said that Studio 54 was " hard to watch on many levels. The movie ended up so different from how it was supposed to be intially." -Ryan Phillippe (Notorious April/May issue.)
You can also catch Ryan in Playing By Heart in theaters now. Playing By Heat, (formally named "Dancing About Architecture") co-stars Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands and Angelina Jolie. In the movie Ryan plays a blue-haired club kid who falls in love with an outspoken red-head.
His next movie is a great success and is getting many great reviews is Cruel Intentions. Which is a remake of the classic "Dangerous Liasons" and co-stars Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Up next for Ryan is "a movie called 'Company Men' directed by Doug McGrath. I bascially play Nuryev, so I get to do a Russian accent. It's like a '60s Wag The Dog political satire about a Russian celebrity who accidently becomes a CIA agent and gets shipped off to Cuba during Castro's reign. John Turturrom, Alan Cumming, Woody Allen, Sigourney Weaver, and Doug McGrath are also in it." -Ryan Phillippe (Notorious April/May issue). Then Ryan is to shoot the movie Way of the Gun in which he plays a criminal who kidnapps a preganant woman played by julitte Lewis. Both movies are supossed to be out later this year.

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