Ron Livingston

About

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 (2001). Livingston’s other roles include the films Swingers (1996), Adaptation. (2002), The Conjuring (2013), James White (2015), Tully (2018); and the television series Loudermilk (2017–2020), and Boardwalk Empire (2013).

== Early life and education ==
Livingston was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Kurt Livingston, an aerospace electronics engineer, and Linda (née Rinas), a Lutheran pastor. He has two brothers and one sister. His younger brother, John, is also an actor. Both his sister, Jennifer Livingston, and brother-in-law, Mike Thompson, were TV news personalities at WKBT-DT in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Livingston attended Yale University, where he sang with The Whiffenpoofs and graduated in 1989, in the same class as Anderson Cooper. He graduated with a B.A. degree in Theatre Studies and English Literature.
Livingston first acted at Theatre Cedar Rapids after being introduced to the group during a school job shadowing. After graduating from Yale in 1989, he moved to Chicago, where he appeared…