Giovanni Ribisi
- Highest Rated: Selma (2014)
- Lowest Rated: The Mod Squad (1999)
- Birthday: Dec 17, 1974
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
-
Born September 17, 1974, in Los Angeles, Giovanni Ribisi began his career in network television, with recurring and guest roles on a number of shows, including The Wonder Years. As a teenager, he was typecast for several years as a dimwitted slacker in films and on television, with a memorable guest spot in an episode of The X-Files and a recurring role as Lisa Kudrow's brother on Friends. Ribisi was eventually able to break the grunge mold, first with a secondary role in Tom Hanks' That Thing You Do! (1996) and then in Richard Linklater's SubUrbia (1997). It was his role in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) that caused many critics to dub him one of the leading actors of his generation, a status confirmed by his appearance on the cover of Vanity Fair with a number of fellow up-and-comers. Ribisi was given further opportunities to showcase his sleepy-eyed versatility in such films as 1999's The Mod Squad and The Other Sister. If Ribisi's best roles had been unfairly weighed down by an overabundance of commendable but little seen roles in the previous years, all this would change as the young actor began to focus increasingly on roles that were not only high quality, but high profile as well. His role in the high stakes 2000 drama The Boiler Room may have went largely unseen in theaters, but healthy word of mouth combined with an impressive cast of up and comers found the film an enduring shelf life on cable and DVD. After burning rubber in the fast and furious Nicolas Cage action thriller Gone in Sixty Seconds, Ribisi's memorable performance in director Sam Raimi's southern gothic flavored chiller The Gift preceded a touching turn in the affecting made-for-television drama Shot in the Heart. Ribisi's subsequent role as a conflicted police officer in the 2002 drama Heaven may have been a well-intended commentary on the state of crime and terrorism, but audiences largel dismissed the effort as pretentious tripe and the actor took a brief turn into blockbuster territory with Basic before a turn as an aloof, celebrity obsessed photogapher in director Sophia Coppola's art-house hit Lost in Translation. If his turn as a celebrity who turns convention in its head by stalking a fan in I Love Your Work didn't strike home with viewers, an appearance in the same year's Cold Mountain offered him the chance to flex his dramatic skills alongside an impressive cast that included Jude Law and Nicole Kidman. Of course Ribisi never was one to be predictable with his choice of roles, and following the romantic comedy Love's Brother he essayed a supporting role in the 2004 sci-fi thriller Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow. A handful of largely forgettable roles followed, and on the heels of recurring television roles in My Name is Earn and Entourage, Ribisi dove back into sci-fi with a role as villainous Chief Administrator Parker Selfridge in James Cameron's phenominally successful Avatar. And if Ribisi's performace in that film failed to make your skin crawl, his turn as a psychotic, heavily-tattooed drug dealer in the fast paced 2012 action thriller Contraband was sure to do the trick. He continued his villainous run as a stalker in the surprise hit film Ted (2012). Ribisi later re-teamed with his Ted director, Seth MacFarlane, in 2014's A Million Ways to Die in the West. He also appeared in the Oscar-nominated film Selma that same year.
Photos
Highest Rated Movies
-
Selma
99% -
Meadowland
96% -
-
Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
|
Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32% | A Million Little Pieces | Actor | — | 2019 |
| 47% | The Bad Batch | The Screamer | $0.2M | 2017 |
| 12% | Papa: Hemingway in Cuba | Denne Bart Petitclerc | $1.2M | 2016 |
| 96% | Meadowland | Tim | — | 2015 |
| 45% | Ted 2 | Donny | $63.9M | 2015 |
| 84% | Results | Paul | — | 2015 |
| 99% | Selma | Lee C. White | — | 2014 |
| 33% | A Million Ways to Die in the West | Edward | $37.4M | 2014 |
| 32% | Gangster Squad | Officer Conwell Keeler | $46M | 2013 |
| 68% | Ted | Donny | $218.2M | 2012 |
| 51% | Contraband | Tim Briggs | $66.5M | 2012 |
| 51% | The Rum Diary | Moburg | $13.1M | 2011 |
| 38% | Middle Men | Wayne Beering | $0.8M | 2010 |
| Columbus Circle | Det. Frank Giardello Executive Producer | — | 2010 | |
| 82% | Avatar | Parker Selfridge | $749.8M | 2009 |
| 68% | Public Enemies | Alvin Karpis | $97.1M | 2009 |
| Spirit of the Forest (Espíritu del bosque) | Cebolo | — | 2008 | |
| 63% | The Dog Problem | Solo | — | 2007 |
| The Gardener of Eden | Actor | — | 2007 | |
| 10% | Perfect Stranger | Miles Haley | $23.8M | 2007 |
| 75% | The Dead Girl | Rudy | — | 2006 |
| 19% | 10th & Wolf | Joey | — | 2006 |
| 30% | The Big White | Ted | — | 2005 |
| 22% | I Love Your Work | Gray Evans | — | 2005 |
| 30% | Flight of the Phoenix | Elliott | $21M | 2004 |
| 71% | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Dex | $37.7M | 2004 |
| Love's Brother | Angelo Donnini | — | 2004 | |
| 71% | Cold Mountain | Junior | — | 2003 |
| 95% | Lost In Translation | John | $44.6M | 2003 |
| 25% | Masked and Anonymous | Soldier | $0.2M | 2003 |
| 21% | Basic | Kendall | $26.6M | 2003 |
| 74% | Heaven | Filippo | $0.7M | 2002 |
| Spencer | Louis | — | 2001 | |
| 83% | Shot in the Heart | Mikal Gilmore | — | 2001 |
| 57% | The Gift | Buddy Cole | $11.2M | 2000 |
| 25% | Gone in 60 Seconds (Gone in Sixty Seconds) | Kip Raines | $101M | 2000 |
| 76% | The Virgin Suicides | Narrator | — | 2000 |
| 27% | It's the Rage | Sidney Lee | — | 2000 |
| 66% | Boiler Room | Seth | — | 2000 |
| 3% | The Mod Squad | Pete | — | 1999 |
| 29% | The Other Sister | Danny | — | 1999 |
| 50% | Phoenix | Joey Schneider | — | 1998 |
| 40% | First Love, Last Rites | Joey | — | 1998 |
| 93% | Saving Private Ryan | T/4 Medic Wade | — | 1998 |
| Some Girl | Jason | — | 1998 | |
| Into the Breach: 'Saving Private Ryan' | Actor | — | 1998 | |
| Doomed Flight | Actor | — | 1998 | |
| 9% | The Postman | Bandit No. 20 | — | 1997 |
| 60% | Lost Highway | Steve `V' | — | 1997 |
| 64% | Suburbia | Jeff | — | 1997 |
| 93% | That Thing You Do! | Chad | — | 1996 |
| Wes Craven Presents Mind Ripper | Scott | — | 1995 | |
| Promised a Miracle | Wesley | — | 1988 |
TV
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 96% |
Sneaky Pete
2017
|
Pete Marius Josipovic/Peter Murphy |
|
|
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
|
Guest |
|
|
|
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
|
Guest |
|
|
| 0% |
Dads
2013-2014
|
Warner Warner Whittemore |
|
|
Chelsea Lately
2007-2014
|
Guest |
|
|
|
Last Call With Carson Daly
2007
|
Guest |
|
|
| 71% |
Family Guy
1999
|
Voice |
|
|
Lopez Tonight
2009-2011
|
Guest |
|
|
| 53% |
Memphis Beat
2010-2011
|
|
|
|
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
|
Guest |
|
|
| 66% |
Entourage
2004-2011
|
Nick |
|
| 82% |
My Name Is Earl
2005-2009
|
Ralph |
|
|
American Experience
1988
|
Voice Narrator |
|
|
|
The Hunger
1997-1999
|
|
||
| 74% |
The X-Files
1993-2018
|
Darren |
|
|
Ellen
1994-1998
|
Cashier |
|
|
| 84% |
NYPD Blue
1993-2005
|
Bruce Mackie |
|
|
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993-2001
|
|
||
|
The Commish
1991-1996
|
Joey Burke |
|
|
|
The Wonder Years
1988-1993
|
Jeff Billings |
|
|
|
Married...With Children
1987-1997
|
Teddy |
|
|
| 57% |
Davis Rules
1991-1992
|
Skinner |
|
QUOTES FROM Giovanni Ribisi CHARACTERS
- Tim Briggs
-
What's up, Houdini? Got somethin' for me?
- Edward
-
So should I bring her back around 6?
- Millie
-
We really don't keep a schedule around here. He'll just be in when he feels like putting his penis in an asshole.
- Edward
-
So we'll say 6, then.
- Edward
-
Oh, hey, look! It's the ice!
- Edward
-
Ice is so big!
- Albert
-
So it doesn't melt. Actually, it's really interesting how they do it. It's this one company out in Boston that- OOAH! That went so, so fast! Ah!
- Albert
-
So it doesn't melt. Actually, it's really interesting how they do it. It's this one company out in Boston that- OOAH! That went south so fast! Ah!
- Edward
-
Please don't shoot us on sex night.
- Polly Perkins
-
A man came to see me today, a scientist. He was terrified. Said someone was coming for him. I asked him who he was so afraid of and he repeated one name: Totenkopf. He nearly went white when he said it.
- Dex Dearborn
-
Totenkopf. Who is he?
- Polly Perkins
-
He's the invisible man. I've been through every library record twice, looking for anything. I've called every contact I have from Paris to Bangkok. This is the only thing I could dig up. He ran some kind of secret science unit outside of Berlin before the start of World War I. Something called Unit 11. It's been more than 30 years since anyone has spoken his name. Until today.
- Dex Dearborn
-
I thought you said this thing was big? Can I have it?
- Joe "Sky Captain" Sullivan
-
You find out where it came from and I'll buy you one for Christmas.
- Donny
-
You're mine, Ted!
- Ted
-
Screw you, pal! I belong to John Bennett.
- Donny
-
But I can give you love, and rocking horses, and dancing!
- Ted
-
I think we're very far apart on this.
- Donny
-
Hi, Ted.
- Ted
-
Fuck!
- Donny
-
Are you out here all alone?
- Ted
-
Uh, no, no I'm not. Uh, you're never alone, when you're with Christ, so no, I'm not alone
- Ted
-
Uh, no, no I'm not. Uh, you're never alone, when you're with Christ, so no, I'm not alone.
- Donny
-
(to Ted) I'll give you love, rocking horses and dancing
- Donny
-
[to Ted] I'll give you love, rocking horses and dancing.
- Bandit #20
-
A Postal Carrier from the Restored Republic of California. Who are you? Postmaster Ford Lincoln Mercury. It's an Honor sir!
- Elliott
-
I'm glad you finally see the light, Mr. Towns.
- Capt. Frank Towns
-
Let's get one thing strait: I'm not taking orders from you.
- Elliott
-
Everyone here is dispensable except me.
- Elliott
-
(shoots injured smuggler) Well, that settles that.
- Elliott
-
[shoots injured smuggler] Well, that settles that.
- Capt. Frank Towns
-
What the h*ll is the matter with you?!
- Elliott
-
Oh, shut up. He would have lasted three days, drinking all of our water.
- Capt. Frank Towns
-
You murdered him, *sshole!
- Elliott
-
No, no, no. The great Captain Towns murdered him. In his infinite wisdom, he told you to go out there, and I told you not to! And now, we're one man short! You made the wrong decisions! You could have killed us all, again! I told you the plane was too heavy!
- Capt. Frank Towns
-
If we turned back we would have had to refuel! You remember!
- Elliott
-
If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be here at all!
- Capt. Frank Towns
-
(punches Elliot) Get up!
- Capt. Frank Towns
-
[punches Elliot] Get up!
- Kelly
-
Will you help us build this plane?
- Elliott
-
Say please.
- Kelly
-
You're kidding.
- Elliott
-
Say please!
- Capt. John Miller
-
You're the doctor! Tell us what you need!
- T/4 Medic Wade
-
I... could use... some more... of those painkillers...
- T/4 Medic Wade
-
Momma... I'm comin' home... Momma... Momma... (dies)
- T/4 Medic Wade
-
Momma... I'm comin' home... Momma... Momma... [dies]
- Moburg
-
If the Bible´s God´s book, why didn´t he give it to everyone?
- Kelly
-
Ok, listen, I'm under Evelyn Waugh, okay? Okay, Arigato Arigato!
- John
-
Muchi Muchi!
- Charlotte
-
Evelyn Waugh?
- John
-
What?
- Charlotte
-
Evelyn Waugh was a man.
- Tim Briggs
-
Tell him not to dump it in the water!
- Moburg
-
"Is it the clap?"
- Moburg
-
Is it the clap?
- Paul Kemp
-
"It's a standing ovation."
- Paul Kemp
-
It's a standing ovation.
- Parker Selfridge
-
What the hell have you people been smoking out there? There just goddamn trees!
- Parker Selfridge
-
[after a stunned pause] What the HELL have you people been smoking out there? [beginning to laugh]
- Parker Selfridge
-
They're just. Goddamn. Trees.
- Wayne Beering
-
If I've learned one thing, it's that business is a lot like sex. Getting in is easy, pulling out is hard.
- Private Richard Reiben
-
You wanna explain the math of this to me? I mean, where's the sense of riskin' the lives of the eight of us to save one guy?
- Capt. John Miller
-
Twenty degrees. Anybody wanna answer that?
- T/4 Medic Wade
-
Reiben, think about the poor bastard's mother.
- Private Richard Reiben
-
Hey, Doc, I got a mother, all right? I mean, you got a mother. Sarge's got a mother. I mean, [he turns and looks at Miller, who has a bemused expression on his face] shit, I bet even the captain's got a mother.
- Private Richard Reiben
-
Well, maybe not the captain, but the rest of us got mothers.
- Parker Selfridge
-
What have you been smoking? They're just trees for godsakes!