An actor by profession, Ron Livingston made his debut with the film, Straight Talk (1992), although his first major role was in the film Swinger (1996). In 1999, he appeared in the cult classic Office Space, post which, he appeared in a miniseries called Band of Brothers. Deviating from the kind of roles he had been doing, he featured in the film Adaptation (2002), The Cooler (2003) and Pretty Persuasion. Livingston, has appeared in various other films, such as Relative Strangers (2006), Music within (2007), The Time Traveler`s Wife (2009), The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012), The Conjuring (2013) and Vacation (2015). His forthcoming venture, The 5th Wave, is set to release in January 2016. He is associated with the 2018 comedy-drama Tully directed by Jason Reitman.