Matthew Ryan Phillippe ˈfɪlɪpi born September 10 1974 is an American actor After appearing as Billy Douglas on the soap opera One Life to Live 19921993 and making his feature film debut in Crimson Tide 1995 he came to prominence in the late 1990s with starring roles in I Know What You Did Last Summer 1997 54 1998 Playing by Heart 1998 and Cruel Intentions 1999 Throughout the 2000s and beyond he took on a range of roles in films such as The Way of the Gun 2000 Antitrust 2001 Gosford Park 2001 Igby Goes Down 2002 The I Inside 2003 Crash 2004 Flags of Our Fathers 2006 Breach 2007 StopLoss 2008 MacGruber 2010 The Bang Bang Club 2010 and The Lincoln Lawyer 2011 Outside of film Phillippe appeared in the lead role of Bob Lee Swagger on USA Networks Shooter 20162018 and reprised his portrayal of Dixon Piper in the Peacock adaptation of MacGruber 2021 In 1997 Phillippe met actress Reese Witherspoon at a party for her 21st birthday Phillippe and Witherspoon who was six months pregnant married on June 5 1999 Their daughter Eva was born in 1999 and their son Deacon was born in 2003 On October 30 2006 the couple released a statement announcing that they were formally separating Witherspoon filed for divorce on November 8 2006 citing irreconcilable differences as the cause The couples marriage officially ended on October 5 2007 with final divorce arrangements settled on June 13 2008 according to court documents They shared joint custody of their children He began dating model and actress Alexis Knapp in May 2010 they ended their relationship in September that same year After their breakup Knapp discovered that she was pregnant by Phillippe and gave birth to a daughter in 2011 Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryan Phillippe licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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