Ryan grew up the youngest of four boys twho his older siblings went on to join the Canadian police force. Ryan was clearly the rogue of the pact emersing himself in school plays and would have his parents driving him to acting auditions. He found some success as the lead in a Canadian kids drama when he was 12 and later made appearances in shows like ‘The Outer Limits’, ‘X-Files’ and ‘Sabrina The Teen Age Witch’ but his parents wanted him to go to college se he did, but actor bug had already got him and abandoned his studies and without his parents knowledge he moved to Los Angeles, at first he had little but the clothes on his back and big dreams in his heart.