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John Livingston

b. 1970

American actor

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Born 1970. John Livingston is an American actor.

John Livingston is an actor and the brother of actor Ron Livingston. He is best known for playing Rand in the 2003 Sundance-winning movie Dopamine, Matt 'Bunz' Bernstein in The Sterling Chase, and Walter, a love interest for Ellen DeGeneres in her 1996 movie Mr. Wrong, along with a wide variety of TV roles and other movie roles.

Career His first acting job was as an urchin in the Cedar Rapids Community Theater production of Scrooge.

He was music director for the Stanford Mendicants in 1992, an a Capella troupe of undergraduates.

Best known for playing Walter, a love interest for Ellen DeGeneres in her movie Mr. Wrong (1996), and for starring in the Sundance award-winning movie Dopamine (2003). Other movie roles include portraying Charley Harling in My Antonia (1995), Doug in The Hungover Games (2014), and Sam Patterson in Amelia 2.0 (2017), based on the play The Summerland Project. He also appeared in The Net (1995), Friends 'Til The End (1996), and EDtv (1999), reteaming with DeGeneres in a similar role as in Mr. Wrong.

His TV roles include a regular role on the short-lived CBS sitcom Love & Money and guest-starring and recurring parts in Murder, She Wrote, Crossing Jordan, The Closer, Bones, JAG, NCIS, NCIS: New Orleans, CSI, Chicago Hope, and Clueless. He is the brother of Ron Livingston and brother-in-law of Rosemarie DeWitt. He attended high school in Marion, Iowa and went on to graduate from Stanford in 1993

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Who is John Livingston?

American actor

When was John Livingston born?

John Livingston was born on 8 November 1970 in Ames.

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John Livingston is an actor.

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John Livingston is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: John Livingston

· Wikidata: Q18618690

· DBpedia: John Livingston (actor)

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