Matthew Ryan Phillippe (; born September 10, 1974) is an American actor, director, and writer. After appearing on the soap opera
One Life to Live, he came to fame in the late 1990s with starring roles in a string of films, including
I Know What You Did Last Summer,
Cruel Intentions, and
54. In the 2000s, he appeared in several films, including
Gosford Park (2001),
Crash (2004), and war drama
Flags of Our Fathers (2006),
Breach (2007), and
Stop-Loss (2008). In 2010, Phillippe starred as Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
Greg Marinovich in
The Bang-Bang Club.