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Born	Ronald Joseph Livingston (1967-06-05) June 5, 1967 (age 56) Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1992–present
Spouse(s)	Rosemarie DeWitt ​ (m. 2009)​
Children	2

Ronald Joseph Livingston (born June 5, 1967) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Peter Gibbons in the 1999 film Office Space and Captain Lewis Nixon III in the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers. Livingston's other roles include the films ... (1996), Adaptation (2002), The Conjuring (2013); and the television series Loudermilk, and Boardwalk Empire, on which he appeared in the fourth season.

Early life

Livingston was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Kurt Livingston, an aerospace/electronics engineer, and Linda (née Rinas), a Lutheran pastor. His younger brother, John, is also an actor; while his sister, Jennifer Livingston, and brother-in-law, Mike Thompson, are TV news personalities at WKBT in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Livingston attended Yale University, where he sang with The Whiffenpoofs and graduated in 1989, together with Anderson Cooper.

Livingston first acted at Theatre Cedar Rapids after being introduced to the group during a school job shadowing. Livingston moved to Chicago and became involved in the local theater scene.

Career

Livingston's first film role was in 1992, in Dolly Parton's Straight Talk. He moved to Los Angeles and was cast in supporting roles in Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade and The Low Life. ..... He starred as the male lead, Peter Gibbons, in the comedy cult classic Office Space, which co-starred Jennifer Aniston and was written and directed by Mike Judge. He also appeared in HBO's miniseries Band of Brothers as Captain Lewis Nixon III opposite Donnie Wahlberg and Damian Lewis. Livingston widened his variety of roles when he played a Hollywood agent in Adaptation (2002), a weaselly Ivy League upstart opposite Alec Baldwin's casino boss in The Cooler (2003) and teachers in Winter Solstice and Pretty Persuasion (both 2005). He also appeared as sardonic writer Jack Berger, Carrie's short-term boyfriend in the fifth and sixth seasons of Sex and the City. He guest-starred in the episode "TB or Not TB" of House. In 2006, he starred as FBI negotiator Matt Flannery in the Fox series Standoff, co-starring Rosemarie DeWitt, and he was an advertising spokesman for Sprint Nextel.

In summer 2007, Livingston appeared on the off-Broadway stage in the world premiere of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House, produced by MCC Theater, with Frederick Weller and Louisa Krause. The show ran May–July at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City. ..... Livingston starred as Patrick, a shady card shark who becomes determined to save Holly from her ill-destined fate.

In 2009, he portrayed flight engineer Maddux Donner in the series Defying Gravity, which was cancelled after its first season.

In 2010, Livingston co-starred in the Jay Roach comedy Dinner for Schmucks. On February 26, 2013, Entertainment Weekly confirmed that he would be joining the cast of HBO's Boardwalk Empire for the fourth season.

In 2013, Livingston co-starred in the indie comedy Drinking Buddies alongside Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson and Anna Kendrick. Drinking Buddies received positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 82% based on 97 reviews.

Livingston starred in the Peter Farrelly–produced comedy television series Loudermilk on the Audience network. ..... The show premiered in October 2017 and was renewed in April 2018 for a second season that premiered in October 2018. In December 2018, Audience renewed the series for a third season. After Audience ceased operations, the third season premiered on Amazon Prime Video in 2020–21.

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Personal life

Livingston and his Standoff co-star Rosemarie DeWitt began a relationship after meeting on the show. After dating for three years, they were married on November 2, 2009, in San Francisco. He was previously engaged to actress Lisa Sheridan.

In May 2013, Livingston and DeWitt announced they had adopted an infant girl born the previous month. In December 2016, the couple announced they had adopted another child, a girl, who was born the previous year.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Straight Talk	Soldier
1994	Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade	Himself	Short film
1995	The Low Life	Chad
1996	...	Rob
1997	Campfire Tales	Rick / RV Driver	Segments: "The Honeymoon" and "The Campfire"
	The Small Hours	Steve
1999	Dill Scallion	Ron Statlin
	Office Space	Peter
	The Big Brass Ring	Sheldon Buckle
	Two Ninas	Marty Sachs
	Body Shots	Trent
2000	Beat	Allen Ginsberg
	A Rumour of Angels	Uncle Charlie
2002	Buying the Cow	Tyler Carter Bellows
	Adaptation.	Marty Bowen
2003	Pirates	Himself	Short
	The Cooler	Larry Sokolov
	44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out	Donnie Anderson	Television movie
2004	Little Black Book	Derek
2005	Winter Solstice	Mr. Bricker
	Pretty Persuasion	Mr. Anderson
	The Life Coach	Ron
2006	Life Happens	Ben Dreamantowski	Short film
	Relative Strangers	Richard Clayton
	Holly	Patrick
2007	Music Within	Richard Pimentel
2008	American Crude	Johnny
	The Spleenectomy	Dr. Bannister	Short film
2009	The Time Traveler's Wife	Gomez
2010	Dinner for Schmucks	Caldwell
	Going the Distance	Will Broderick
2011	Leave	Dr. Lieberman
	10 Years	Paul
2012	Queens of Country	Rance McCoy
	The Odd Life of Timothy Green	Franklin Crudstaff
	Game Change	Mark Wallace	Television movie
2013	Touchy Feely	Adrian
	Drinking Buddies	Chris
	The Pretty One	Charles
	The Conjuring	Roger Perron	Nominated – Fright Meter Award for Best Supporting Actor
	The Sidekick	Captain Wonder	Short film
	Parkland	James Hosty
2014	Fort Bliss	Richard
	We Hate Paul Revere	Paul Revere	Television movie
2015	James White	Ben
	Addicted to Fresno	Edwin
	Vacation	Ethan
	Digging for Fire	Bob
2016	The 5th Wave	Oliver Sullivan
	Shangri-La Suite	Elvis
2017	Shimmer Lake	Kyle Walker
	Lucky	Bobby Lawrence
	Welcome to America	Himself	Short
2018	Tully	Drew / husband
	The Long Dumb Road	Francois
	The Professor	Henry
	The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot	Flag Pin
2020	Holly Slept Over	Peter
2021	The Tender Bar	Future JR	Voice
	The Same Storm	Jim Lamson / Ben's Dad
2022	The Estate	James
2023	The Flash	Henry Allen
	Sitting in Bars with Cake	Fred
	The Featherweight	Bob Kaplan	Post-production

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See also

In Spanish: Ron Livingston para niños