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- Birth nameRonald Joseph Livingston
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Ronald Joseph Livingston was born on June 5, 1967 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Linda (Rinas), a Lutheran pastor, and Kurt Livingston, an aerospace engineer. He has three siblings, Nick, John Livingston, also an actor, and Jennifer Livingston, a TV news personality at CBS/WKBT in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He is of German, and smaller amounts of Welsh, Scottish, and English, ancestry.
Livingston graduated from Marion High School, then attended Yale University with Paul Giamatti and Edward Norton. It was at Yale University that he earned his B.A. degree in Theatre Studies and English Literature. He began his acting career while still an undergraduate, getting his stage credits with the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Manhattan Class Company. In 1989, after graduating from Yale, Livingston moved to Chicago, where he acted in a number of stage productions, including shows at the Goodman Theatre and other venues. His film debut was in Dolly Parton's Straight Talk (1992). He accelerated his film career by moving to Los Angeles in 1993, gaining attention as one of the buddies in the popular hit Swingers (1996). His acting credits include the cult hit Office Space (1999), in which he starred opposite Jennifer Aniston, the mini-series Band of Brothers (2001), where he co-starred with Damian Lewis, eight episodes of Sex and the City (1998) (2002-2003), where he starred opposite Sarah Jessica Parker, and the Oscar-winning Adaptation. (2002), among his other works. He was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2002 for his performance in Band of Brothers (2001). He also appears as Sebastian Charles in the episode "TB or not TB" (2005) of Fox's popular series House (2004).
In 2006, Livingston became a new spokesman for Sprint Nextel telecommunications company in their new "Power Up" campaign. He is starring as Matt Flannery, the FBI senior negotiator, in the FOX's popular television series Standoff (2006), since the series opened in September 2006.
Livingston resides in Los Angeles, California. He married actress Rosemarie DeWitt in 2009. The couple have two children.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov
- SpouseRosemarie DeWitt(November 2, 2009 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenEsperanza Mae
- ParentsParentKurt Livingston
- Attended Yale University with Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti.
- Mother is a Lutheran minister, father is an aerospace engineer.
- Father of Gracie James Livingston (b. April 29, 2013) & Esperanza Mae Livingston (b. December 2015), both adopted with wife Rosemarie DeWitt.
- Got his start in Chicago, where one of the theatres he performed at was the Goodman Theatre.
- His feature film debut was Straight Talk (1992).
- (on why he moved to Chicago to pursue an acting career) "It was within Greyhound striking distance of home. It was a good place to start out."
- Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.
- If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.
- Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
- If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.
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