The Ron Livingston Website

The following facts about Ron have come from numerous interviews, articles and conversations with Ron.

Did you know that~

• On the Standoff set, Ron and Rosemarie Dewitt enjoyed playing practical jokes on castmate Gina Torres
  
• As a kid growing up in Iowa he was a paper boy and worked at The Ground Round
  
• Owns a vintage 1969 Ford Mustang
  
• In the movie "Swingers" he, Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Alex Desert and Patrick Van Horn were all pictured driving each other's actual cars.
• His dogs name is Dudley.
• He loves to read.
• Plays piano.
• Is a Chicago Cubs and Chicago Bears fan
• He really is 5'11".
• Is known for his ability to sleep on the set between takes.
• He's an avid poker player
• Appeared in an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog.
• While attending Marion High School, Ron’s Grandpa (on his Mom's side) was his chemistry teacher.  Grandpa also taught Ron's father Kurt as a student many years before, when Ron's parents were dating in high school.
• He and his dad Kurt appeared together in a community theater production of “Oklahoma”
• After college, while pursuing his acting career, he worked as a temporary administrative assistant, and could type 65 wpm. At one temp job in particular, he would page himself or his boss over the intercom for fun.
• He has a “war” injury. In a scene during Part 4 of Band of Brothers, Ron (as Captain Lewis Nixon) gets his helmet knocked off by a bullet. To reenact the scene, he was supposed to fall into a ditch, and the prop crew would throw the helmet down next to him. In filming, as the helmet was thrown, it bounced and hit Ron in the eyebrow. When his eye started to swell, the director, David Nutter, decided to take over throwing the helmet. They shot the scene again. The helmet was thrown a second time, and it bounced again, hitting him in the exact same spot, this time slicing his forehead open, which required him to have stitches.
• While living in Chicago, he met Jon Favreau, who later wrote and starred in Swingers. During this time he and Jon worked a gig together for a PR firm in which they had to dress up in foam-rubber Captain Crunch outfits.
• In 1994, a year after he relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles — he was hit by a careless driver who made an illegal left turn, which totaled his car. With the insurance money, he was able to walk away from his temp job and concentrate on acting.
• Ron earned an academic scholarship to Yale University. He switched his major to Theater because there was a specific instructor he wanted to take classes from. He intended to switch his major back to something “practical” like math or science but never did.
• He met George Wendt of "Cheers" fame while working at the Williamstown Theater festival. George hired him as a personal assistant for a short period of time while Ron was trying to get his acting career started.
• In Season 6 of Sex and the City, episode "Great Sexpectations" Carrie, trying to be alluring while drunk, hits Berger in the face with a flying stiletto heel as she is undressing. This was actually an accident during filming- instead of stopping for a retake-Ron went with it, and the director did too! (Ron seems to be a magnet for tossed props.... Manolo Blahnik's, Army helmets...)
• Ron's sister makes a cameo appearance in one of his movies. In the film Relative Strangers Ron's younger sister Jennifer can be seen on television during one scene- she's playing a newscaster for a Chicago-area station- in reality, she's a news anchor in Wisconsin.

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