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Ryan Phillippe: Los Angeles
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Ryan Phillippe grew up with three sisters. His father is a chemist and his mother runs a day-care centre. It was a neighbour who suggested to Ryan's mother that the angelic looking teenager could make money doing commercials.
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Family man Ryan Phillippe took some time off from his busy film shooting schedule to snowboard with some buddies up in the mountains this week. Think Ryan can handle the big slopes? Either way, the Stop Loss star sure does look like he's having fun!
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Phillippe was now steadily receiving offers to work with highly-respected directors in varied dramatic roles, and he delivered the goods again with “Breach†(2007). The film was based on the true story of an FBI operative (Chris Cooper) convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, and was hailed by critics who were up in arms that the film had been released at the slowest time of the year with little promotion. Phillippe followed up with a starring role in “Stop-Loss†(2007), the story of a returning Iraq war soldier from “Boys Don’t Cry†director Kimberly Peirce. As a partner in the production company Lucid Films with old buddies Breckin Myer and Seth Green. The company’s first option was a film adaptation of Paul Beatty’s novel White Boy Shuffle (1996).
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In Los Angeles, a penniless Phillippe lived in a garage and could not afford a car, so he skateboarded or took the bus to auditions. After one audition, he was offered a ride home by fellow struggling actor Breckin Myer, who introduced him to his roommate Seth Green. The trio became fast friends, spending nights skating and getting in trouble on the street as the rest of the Hollywood nightlife was still way out of reach. But before long, all three were making career headway, with Phillippe landing guest and supporting spots on primetime TV and eventually starring in an unsold ABC pilot "Time Well Spent" (1995) and the Fox TV-movie "Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare” (1995).
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