Ryan Phillippe

'Ryan Phillippe' (qv) was born on September 10, 1974 in New Castle, Delaware, to Susan (Thomas), a nurse, and Richard Phillippe, a chemical technician. He has three sisters, Kirsten, Lindsay, and Katelyn, and attended New Castle Baptist Academy. Ryan's acting career began with the soap opera _One Life to Live (1968)_ (qv). It was no small role. His character, Billy Douglas, was US daytime television's first gay teenager. Billy struggled with coming out issues and the town's anti-gay reactions. After several other television appearances and he began appearing in movies of his own, _Nowhere (1997)_ (qv), _White Squall (1996)_ (qv) _I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)_ (qv), _Cruel Intentions (1999)_ (qv), _Crash (2005)_ (qv), _Flags of Our Fathers (2006)_ (qv), and _Stop-Loss (2008)_ (qv).::Leonard Tran <tranlw01@wfu.edu>