There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.

Phillippe began dating Australian actress Abbie Cornish in 2007 after meeting on the set of Stop-Loss. Also starring Bruce Willis Jenna Dewan and 50 Cent the movie focuses on a group of young men from Detroit whose attempt at a diamond heist goes awry and brings them into conflict with a mob boss. Phillippe was present during the birth.

In the 2000s he appeared in several films including 2001's Academy Award Best Picture nominee Gosford Park 2005's Academy Award-winning ensemble film Crash and the 2006 war drama Flags of Our Fathers. Matthew Ryan Phillippe (pron. In 2010 he starred as Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Greg Marinovich in The Bang-Bang Club.