Ryan Phillippe. Actor: L.A. Crash. Ryan Phillippe was born on September 10, 1974 in New Castle, Delaware, to Susan (Thomas), a nurse, and Richard Phillippe, a chemical technician. He has three sisters, Kirsten, Lindsay, and Katelyn, and attended New Castle Baptist Academy. Ryan's acting career began with the soap opera Liebe, Lüge, Leidenschaft (1968). It was no small role. His character, Billy Douglas, was US daytime television's first gay teenager....