Early life

Ribisi was born in Los Angeles, California. His father, Albert Anthony Ribisi, is a musician who had been the keyboard player in People!, and his mother, Gay (née Landrum), is a manager of actors and writers. He is the twin brother of actress Marissa Ribisi and the brother of voice actress Gina Ribisi. He is of Italian (from his paternal grandfather), English, and German descent.

Career

Ribisi began his career as a child on television shows such as The New Leave It to Beaver, Married... with Children, The Wonder Years and My Two Dads. He entered the public eye with a prominent performance in The X-Files episode "D.P.O.", and his recurring role as Frank, Jr. on Friends. He had previously appeared as an extra in the episode "The One with the Baby on the Bus". Between 2005 and 2008, Ribisi played Ralph in multiple episodes of My Name Is Earl, earning a 2007 Emmy nomination for his performance. He appeared in the music video for Keane's single "Crystal Ball" in 2006. He also appeared in Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's music video "Talk About the Blues". In September 2008, he appeared twice on the HBO comedy series Entourage.

Personal life

Ribisi married actress Mariah O'Brien in 1997 and together they have one daughter, Lucia. The couple divorced in 2001. In 2007, he began a relationship with indie rock singer-songwriter Cat Power. The couple lived together for five years before ending their relationship in 2012. On June 16, 2012, Ribisi married English model Agyness Deyn and filed for divorce in January 2015.

Ribisi is an active Scientologist, and participated in the gala opening of Scientology's Psychiatry: An Industry of Death museum in December 2005. His twin sister, Marissa, is married to musician Beck.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom	Pete Reyes	Television film
1995	Mind Ripper	Scott Stockton	Direct-to-video
1996	That Thing You Do!	Chad
1996	The Grave	Wex
1997	First Love, Last Rites	Joey
1997	The Postman	Bandit 20
1997	Lost Highway	Steve V.
1996	SubUrbia	Jeff
1998	Saving Private Ryan	T-5 Medic Irwin Wade	Online Film & Television Association Award for Best Cinematic Moment Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1998	Some Girl	Jason
1998	Phoenix	Joey Schneider
1999	The Other Sister	Daniel McMann
1999	The Mod Squad	Peter
1999	It's the Rage	Sidney
1999	The Virgin Suicides	Narrator	Voice
2000	Boiler Room	Seth Davis	Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Liar
2000	The Gift	Buddy Cole	Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
2000	Gone in 60 Seconds	Kip Raines
2001	Shot in the Heart	Mikal Gilmore	Television film Nominated—AFI Award for Actor of the Year - Male - TV Movie or Miniseries
2001	According to Spencer	Louis
2002	Heaven	Filippo	Golden Arena Award for Best Actor — Foreign Film
2003	Basic	Kendall
2003	Cold Mountain	Junior
2003	I Love Your Work	Gray Evans
2003	Lost in Translation	John
2003	Masked and Anonymous	Soldier
2004	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Dexter "Dex" Dearborn	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
2004	Flight of the Phoenix	Elliott
2004	Love's Brother	Angelo Donnini
2005	The Big White	Ted
2006	10th & Wolf	Joey
2006	The Dead Girl	Rudy
2006	The Dog Problem	Solo
2007	Gardener of Eden	Vic
2007	Perfect Stranger	Miles Haley
2008	Spirit of the Forest	Cebolo (voice)	English dub
2009	Public Enemies	Alvin Karpis
2009	Avatar	Parker Selfridge	Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Hissy Fit
2009	Middle Men	Wayne Beering
2011	The Rum Diary	Moburg
2011	The Other Side	Sean Splinter
2012	Contraband	Tim Briggs
2012	Ted	Donny
2012	Columbus Circle	Detective Paul Giardello	Executive producer
2013	Gangster Squad	Conway Keeler
2014	Playing It Cool
2014	A Million Ways to Die in the West	Edward
2014	I Fought the Law	Chris Long
2014	Selma	Lee C. White
2015	Papa: Hemingway in Cuba	Ed Myers
2015	Results	Paul
2015	Meadowland	Tim
2015	Ted 2	Donny
2016	The Bad Batch		Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Highway to Heaven	Curtis Johnson	2 episodes Nominated—Young Artist Award for Best Younger Guest Actor in a Television Series
1985	Simon & Simon	Kid #1	Episode: "The Skull of Nostradamus"
1985	The Twilight Zone	Teddy	Episode: "The Beacon"
1985-1989	The New Leave It to Beaver	Duffy Guthrie	15 episodes
1986-1987	Sidekicks	Travis	4 episodes
1987-1989	Married... with Children	Teddy	2 episodes
1987-1990	My Two Dads	Cory Kupkus	30 episodes Nominated—Young Artist Award for Best Younger Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated—Young Artist Award for Best Younger Actor Starring in a Television Series
1991	Blossom	Mitchell	Episode: "Blossom Blossoms"
1991-1992	Davis Rules	Skinner Buckley	16 episodes
1992-1993	The Wonder Years	Jeff Bilings	15 episodes Nominated—Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor Recurring in a Television Series
1993	The Commish	Joey Burke	2 episodes
1993	Family Album	Elvis DeMattis	6 episodes
1994	Walker, Texas Ranger	Tony Kingston	2 episodes
1994	NYPD Blue	Bruce	2 episodes
1994	Ellen	Mort Morgan	11 episodes
1995	The X-Files	Darin Peter Oswald	Episode: "D.P.O."
1995	Marker	Eddie	Episode: "Dead Man's Marker"
1995	Chicago Hope	Michael Weber	Episode: "Every Day a Little Death"
1995	Friends	Frank	Extra Episode: "The One with the Baby on the Bus"
1996	Tracey Takes On...	Dad	Episode: "Family"
1996-2003	Friends	Frank Buffay, Jr.	9 episodes
1999	The Hunger	Eddie Foden	Episode: "Sanctuary"
2005-2008	My Name Is Earl	Ralph Mariano	6 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
2008	Entourage	Nick	2 episodes
2010	Memphis Beat	Gene Templer	Episode: "One Night of Sin"
2013	Family Guy	Randy (voice)	Episode: "Call Girl"
2013-2014	Dads	Warner Whittemore	18 episodes
2015	Sneaky Pete	Pete / Marius	1 episode

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
2003	Call of Duty	Pvt. Elder
2006	Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure	Kry1
2009	James Cameron's Avatar: The Game	Parker Selfridge

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