Jeremy Sisto Parents: Meet Reedy Gibbs, Richard Sisto

Jeremy Merton Sisto (born October 6, 1974) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Billy Chenowith in HBO’s Six Feet Under, NYPD Detective Cyrus Lupo in NBC’s Law & Order, and George Altman in the ABC sitcom Suburgatory, for which he was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, & Jubal Valentine in the CBS drama series FBI.

He starred in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless (1995), Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen (2003), & Adrienne Shelly’s Waitress (2007).

Jeremy Sisto Parents: Meet Reedy Gibbs, Richard Sisto

Jeremy Sisto was born in Grass Valley, California, the son of Reedy Gibbs, an actress, and Richard “Dick” Sisto, a jazz musician and educator. Sisto has an older sister, Meadow Sisto, who is an actress mostly known for playing Caroline in the 1992 film Captain Ron. Sisto’s parents divorced and his father then married fabric artist Penny Sisto.

Sisto lived with his mother and sister and has said that his father’s absence made parenting his own son more difficult. He was raised in the lower Sierra Nevada Mountains, before moving to Chicago at age seven.

He attended Hayfield Montessori School in Louisville, Kentucky for first grade, then Francis W. Parker School in Chicago. Sisto worked with local theater companies Cherry Street Theater and the Absolute Theater Company.

He appeared in the film Grand Canyon while attending high school. After he was accepted into the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), on a non-disclosure agreement, his career took off and he began acting full-time.