Ryan Phillippe performed in the soap opera One Life to Live in 1994.
Billy Douglas (One Life to Live) . Newcomer actor Ryan Phillippe played the role from April 1992 until May 1993 . One Life to Live ( often abbreviated as OLTL ) is an American soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network for more than 43 years , from July 15 , 1968 , to January 13 , 2012 , and then on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network from April 29 to August 19 , 2013 . Ryan Phillippe . After appearing as Billy Douglas on the soap opera One Life to Live , he came to fame in the late 1990s with starring roles in a string of films , including I Know What You Did Last Summer , Cruel Intentions , and 54 .