John Livingston is an actor and the brother of actor

Ron Livingston Ronald Joseph Livingston (born June 5, 1967) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Peter Gibbons in ''Office Space'' (1999) and Captain Lewis Nixon III in the miniseries ''Band of Brothers (miniseries), Band of Brothers'' (2001). Liv ...

. He is best known for playing Rand in the 2003

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-winning movie ''

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,'' Matt 'Bunz' Bernstein in ''

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'' (1999)'','' and Walter, a love interest for

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in her 1996 movie ''

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'', along with a wide variety of TV roles and other movie roles.

Career

His first acting job was as an urchin in the Cedar Rapids Community Theater production of '' Scrooge''. He was music director for the

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in 1992, an a Capella troupe of undergraduates. Best known for playing Walter, a love interest for

in her movie ''

'' (1996), and for starring in the

award-winning movie ''Dopamine'' (2003). Other movie roles include portraying Charley Harling in ''

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'' (1995), Doug in '' The Hungover Games'' (2014), and Sam Patterson in '' Amelia 2.0'' (2017), based on the play ''The Summerland Project''. He also appeared in '' The Net'' (1995), '' Friends 'Til The End'' (1996), and ''

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'' (1999), reteaming with DeGeneres in a similar role as in ''Mr. Wrong''. He starred as "Matt 'Bunz' Bernstein" in ''

'' (1999). His TV roles include a regular role on the short-lived CBS sitcom ''

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'' and guest-starring and recurring parts in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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, JAG,

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, NCIS: New Orleans,'' ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. His first television role was playing Todd in an episode of '' Saved by the Bell: The New Class'' in 1994. He also appeared in TV movies like ''Betrayed: A Story of Three Women'' (1995), as Charlie Nelson; ''Ice'' (2001); and ''The Long Shot'' (2004), as Ross Garrett. He played Seth in ''

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''.

Personal life

He has been married to

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since 2006. He is the brother of

and brother-in-law of

Rosemarie DeWitt Rosemarie Braddock DeWitt (born October 26, 1971) is an American actress. DeWitt played Emily Lehman in the Fox television series '' Standoff'' (2006–07), co-starring with her future husband Ron Livingston, as well as Charmaine Craine on '' U ...

. Livingston was born in

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, to Kurt Livingston, an

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/electronics engineer, and Linda (née Rinas), a

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pastor. He attended high school in

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and went on to graduate from

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in 1993 with a degree in psychology. His sister, Jennifer Livingston, and brother-in-law, Mike Thompson, were TV news personalities at

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Livingston, John American male television actors Living people Stanford University alumni 1970 births