Giovanni Ribisi

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

Biography

Early life

Ribisi was born in Los Angeles, California to Gay Landrum, a talent agent, and Albert Ribisi, a musician. He is the twin brother of actress Marissa Ribisi, and has another sister, Gina.

Career

Ribisi began his career in network television with recurring and guest roles on a number of shows, including 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, the brother of Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow) on Friends. More recently, he has appeared in three episodes of My Name Is Earl. His film credits include Saving Private Ryan, Boiler Room, The Gift, Basic, Lost in Translation, Flight of the Phoenix and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Ribisi has also appeared on the video of British band Keane's single Crystal Ball, which was released worldwide on August 21, 2006. He also appeared with Winona Ryder and John C. Reilly in a Jon Spencer Blues Explosion music video.

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.

Ribisi is an active Scientologist,^[1] and participated in the gala opening of Scientology's controversial "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Museum in December 2005. His twin sister, Marissa, is also a Scientologist and is married to Scientologist indie-rocker Beck.

Filmography

• Perfect Stranger (2007)
• 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 - narrator (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)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• The Postman (1997)
• That Thing You Do (1996)
• SubUrbia (1996)
• Scotch and Milk (1996)
• The Hills Have Eyes III (also known as Mindripper)(1995)

Footnotes

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