His number 1 role wwhen as Billy Douglas, daytime television's 1st gay adolescent, in the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. Fallowing allowing a indicate, he moved to Los Angeles, where he struggled for the instance prior to landing a total of little area within various tv program & movies, including White Squall (1996).

Late that month he played a a share of Barry Cox inside I Know What You Did Last Summer with Jennifer Love Hewitt. the motion picture was the summertime hit & led to a prima role inside 54 in 1998, alongside Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, and Breckin Meyer.

Around 1999, Phillippe landed the role of Sebastian Valmont around Cruel Intentions, a modern retelling of the Choderlos de Laclos' novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. the picture was two a critical & pack professional hit amongst its meant teen audience. This was a 2nd instance that Phillippe got worked alongside television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, Sarah Michelle Gellar. He likewise appeared alongside his first married woman, Reese Witherspoon.

Inside 2000 Phillippe starred opposite Benicio Del Toro in The Way of the Gun, followed with his role as a wizardly software engineer in the high-tech thriller Antitrust. Inside 2001, Ryan co-starred in Robert Altman's critically-acclaimed Gosford Park, with many of England's most respected actors, including Maggie Smith, Derek Jacobi, Helen Mirren, and Emily Watson.

Ryan plans to forge the career as a producer with his production company, Lucid Films.

Personal life
Ryan hails from either the fairly average background; his father works as a chemist for DuPont and his mother manages a day care center.

Within 1997, Ryan attended a person given for Reese Witherspoon's 21st birthday. Upon meeting a guest of honor, Phillippe was immediately mesmerized and spent all night speech the young actress. Them began an extended few feet away courting by mail, e-mail, and telephone.

Phillippe & Witherspoon married in the summertime of 1999 and had the girl known as Ava late that month. Their boy Deacon was innate within 2003.

Filmography
Tlatelolco: Mexico 68 (2006) (announced) .... Patrick Flags of Our Fathers (2006) (pre-production) .... John Bradley Dorian Gray (2005) (pre-production) .... Dorian Chaos (2005/I) (completed) .... Shane Dekker 5 Fingers (2005) .... Martijn Crash (2004) .... Officer Hanson A We In (2003) .... Simon Cable Igby Goes Down (2002) .... Oliver 'Ollie' Slocumb Gosford Park (2001) .... Henry Denton AntiTrust (2001) .... Milo Hoffman The Way of the Gun (2000) .... Parker Company Man (2000) .... Petrov Cruel Intentions (1999) .... Sebastian Valmont Playing by Heart (1998) .... Keenan 54 (1998) .... Shane O'Shea Homegrown (1998) .... Harlan I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) .... Barry William Cox Little Boy Blue (1997) .... Jemmy West/Danny Knight Nowhere (1997) .... Shad, Allysa's brother Invader (1996) .... Pvt. Ryan White Squall (1996) .... Gil Martin Crimson Tide (1995) .... Seaman Grattam