Believable as a hero or a cad, this handsome actor should have gotten his big break as one of the buddies in the testosterone-driven indie
Swingers, but he was upstaged by his costars, including a young Vince Vaughn. Ultimately his career took off when he embodied an unmotivated employee in the 1999 anticorporate comedy
Office Space. Although the film wasn't initially a hit, it became a cult favorite around the time Livingston began popping up on the small screen, including recurring parts as a zealous prosecutor on
The Practice and a commitment-phobic novelist on
Sex and the City, and his Golden Globe-nominated turn as a real-life paratrooper in the lauded WWII miniseries
Band of Brothers. While Livingston played a number of usually unsympathetic supporting parts in impressive indie features (
Adaptation,
The Cooler), the small screen remained his medium, and in 2006 he returned to series TV with a plum role as an FBI hostage negotiator on
Standoff.
Ron Livingston Fast Facts:
- Acted at the Williamstown Theatre Festival while in college.
- During his senior year at Yale, he directed fellow student and future Oscar-nominee Edward Norton in a play.
- Appeared as Molly Ringwald's beau in the short-lived 1996 ABC series Townies.
- Ron Livingston Relationships:
- Jennifer Livingston - Sister
- John Livingston - Brother
- Kurt Livingston - Father
- Linda Livingston - Mother
- Lisa Sheridan - Ex-fiancée
- Nick Livingston - Brother
- Rosemarie DeWitt - Wife
- Ron Livingston Awards:
- 2002 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - Nominee
- College:
- Yale University, New Haven, CT (BA in Theater Studies and English Literature)
