Ron Livingston

RON LIVINGSTON starred in the New Line-Warner Bros. film “Going the Distance,” starring Drew Barrymore, Justin Long and Christina Applegate. In summer 2009, he co-starred in the New Line-Warner Bros. film “The Time Traveler's Wife,” with Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, and he also starred in the ABC series “Defying Gravity,” a one-hour drama about a team of astronauts on a six-year billion-mile mission in outer space. Livingston played Maddux Donner, the flight engineer responsible for the spaceship.

In 2007, Livingston appeared off-Broadway in the Neil LaBute play “In a Dark, Dark House.” In addition, he starred with Michael Sheen and Melissa George in “Music Within,” winner of the audience award at the Palm Springs and AFI Dallas film festivals, and also starred in “Holly,” a riveting film about child trafficking shot on location in Cambodia and screened at several festivals that year.

As Captain Lewis Nixon in HBO's “Band of Brothers,” Livingston was nominated for a Golden Globe® in the Best Supporting Actor category in 2001. The critically acclaimed series won the Emmy® and Golden Globe® for Best Miniseries that year. That fall, Livingston also appeared on the Emmy®-winning drama “The Practice,” as the hot shot Assistant District Attorney Alan Lowe, then took a memorable turn as Jack Berger on the ever-popular HBO series “Sex and the City,” opposite Sarah Jessica Parker.

His past films include Livingston's co-starring role in “The Cooler,” the critically acclaimed film from Lionsgate, starring William H. Macy, Maria Bello and Alec Baldwin, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and opened the Los Angeles Film Festival. He has also appeared in: “Adaptation” for director Spike Jonze, along with Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper; “Swingers,” with Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn; “Pretty Persuasion” for Samuel Goldwyn with Evan Rachel Wood and James Woods; the Paramount Classics film “Winter Solstice,” with Anthony LaPaglia and Allison Janney; “Relative Strangers”; and “Little Black Book. He also starred in the Fox series “Standoff” and the TNT limited series “Nightmares and Dreamscapes,” based on the Steven King anthology of the same name.

But Livingston may be best known as the star of the cult hit “Office Space.” Directed by Mike Judge and starring opposite Jennifer Aniston, the film has gone on to become one of the industry's best-selling film/DVD rentals of all time. In the film, he plays a disgruntled young office worker caught up in the corporate rat race.

Raised in Iowa, Livingston graduated from Marion High School and attended Yale University. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

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