18 interesting facts about Giovanni Ribisi
- In 2007 Giovanni Ribisi was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in My Name Is Earl.
- Giovanni was nominated for a SAG award in 1999 for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Theatrical Motion Picture for the film Saving Private Ryan.
- The live action part of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), in which Giovanni Ribisi played sidekick to Jude Law's lead, was filmed totally in a blue room; all of the CGI and other effects were put in later.
- For his lead role in Heaven (2002), Giovanni Ribisi had to learn to speak Italian with a perfect accent, in just twelve days.
- Giovanni Ribisi is of Italian, Irish, and German descent.
- Giovanni Ribisi is a Scientologist.
- Giovanni Ribisi enjoys playing the guitar.
- Giovanni enjoys listening to heavy metal music such as Van Halen and Black Sabbath.
- His best friend is fellow Saving Private Ryan star Adam Goldberg.
- Giovanni Ribisi says his role model is Marlon Brando.
- Giovanni Ribisi clashed with filmmakers on the set of Basic because of the inclusion of a female special forces unit, women are not allowed in combat in the US Military and he felt it compromised the integrity of the story.
- Giovanni Ribisi is best known on TV as Phoebes Dimwit Brother in Friends and also for his role on My Name Is Earl.
- He is fifteen minutes older than his twin sister Marissa Ribisi.
- Giovanni Ribisi made the cover of Vanity Fair after receiving critical acclaim for Saving Private Ryan.
- He once competed on a family game show called Im Telling with sister Marissa Ribisi.
- His daughter Lucia, born in December 1997, is named after the doomed heroine in the Donzietti opera Lucia di Lammermoor.
- Giovanni Ribisi is 5'7" or 1.71m tall.
- He encouraged his good friend Ethan Suplee who was 16 at the time to take acting classes.
