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Giovanni Ribisi
Giovanni Ribisi in March 2007
Born	Antonino Giovanni Ribisi December 17, 1974 (1974-12-17) (age 33) Los Angeles, CA, USA
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1983–present
Spouse(s)	Mariah O'Brien (1997–2001)
Awards won Other awards Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble 1998 Saving Private Ryan

Antonino Giovanni Ribisi (born December 17, 1974) is an American actor.

Biography

Early life

Ribisi was born in Los Angeles, California. His mother, Gay (née Landrum), is a manager of actors and writers, and his father, Al Ribisi, is a musician.¹ He is of Italian descent^{citation needed} and is the twin brother of actress Marissa Ribisi, and the brother of Gina Ribisi, a voice actress.²

Career

Ribisi began his career in network television with recurring and guest roles on a number of shows, including The New Leave It to Beaver, The Wonder Years and My Two Dads. He entered the public eye with a prominent performance in The X-Files episode "D.P.O.," as well as with his recurring role as Frank Jr., the brother of Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow) on Friends. He actually first appears as an unnamed character in The One With the Baby on the Bus asking for his condom back from Phoebe after throwing it with some change in her guitar case. He appears nude in the film subUrbia. More recently, he has appeared in four episodes of My Name Is Earl, earning a 2007 Emmy nomination for his performance on the series.

Partial filmography

His film credits include Perfect Stranger, Heaven, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Saving Private Ryan, That Thing You Do!, Boiler Room, subUrbia, The Gift, Basic, Lost in Translation, Flight of the Phoenix and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Ribisi has appeared on the video of British band Keane's single Crystal Ball, which was released worldwide on August 21, 2006. He appeared with Winona Ryder and John C. Reilly 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 was married to Mariah O'Brien from March 18, 1997 through November 3, 2001; the couple had a daughter, Lucia, born in December 1997 and named after the doomed heroine in the Donizetti opera, Lucia di Lammermoor. His twin sister, Marissa, is also a Scientologist and is married to Scientologist indie-rocker Beck³

Religious beliefs

Ribisi is an active Scientologist,⁴⁵ and participated in the gala opening of Scientology's controversial "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Museum in December 2005.⁶

Filmography

• Public Enemies (2009)
• Avatar (2009)
• Spirit of the Forest (2008) (voice)
• Gardener of Eden (2007)
• The Dog Problem (2007)
• Perfect Stranger (2007)
• The Dead Girl (2006)
• 10th & Wolf (2006)
• The Big White (2005)
• Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
• Love's Brother (2004)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
• Basic (2003)
• Cold Mountain (2003)
• I Love Your Work (2003)
• Lost in Translation (2003)
• Masked and Anonymous (2003)
• Heaven (2002)
• Shot in the Heart (2001)
• According to Spencer (2001)
• The Virgin Suicides (2000)
• Boiler Room (2000)
• The Gift (2000)
• Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
• It's the Rage (2000)
• The Mod Squad (1999)
• The Other Sister (1999)
• First Love, Last Rites (1998)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Phoenix (1998)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• The Postman (1997)
• That Thing You Do (1996)
• SubUrbia (1996)
• Scotch and Milk (1996)
• The Hills Have Eyes III (1995) - also known as Mindripper
• Walker, Texas Ranger (1994)

References

External links

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Scientology portal

• Giovanni-Ribisi.com
• Giovanni Ribisi at the Internet Movie Database
• Ribisi on The Hour