Ron Livingston is best known for his lead role as a disaffected corporate employee in the cult classic Office Space. His first film role was in 1992, in Dolly Parton's Straight Talk. Livingston landed his first role in a major film in 1996's Swingers. His first serious role came in HBO's Band of Brothers as Captain Lewis Nixon. Going beyond nice-guy roles, Livingston played a shark-like Hollywood agent in Adaptation; a weaselly Ivy League upstart to Alec Baldwin's casino boss in The Cooler; and an unfortunate English teacher in Pretty Persuasion. He also appeared as Jack Berger, Carrie's boyfriend in the sixth season of Sex and the City, as well as in the episode "TB or not TB" of House. He stars as Matt Flannery in the FOX series Standoff. Matt Flannery is a senior negotiator for Crisis Negotiation Unit, FBI Los Angeles. He is also partner and lover to Emily Lehman.