Colin Ryan (actor)

Colin Ryan
Born	23 June 1986 Birmingham, England, UK
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2010–present
Known for	Leonardo

Colin Ryan (born 23 June 1986) is an English actor, best known for the BBC's series Leonardo^[1] as a young Lorenzo de' Medici.

Early life and career

Ryan trained at Arts Educational Schools, London, and graduated in 2009. His first job after graduation was with Rufus Hound in sci-fi comedy Hounded for CBBC. He also did the pilot for BBC Switch comedy Shelfstackers.

Stage roles at drama school include Caiaphas the elder and Simon the Zealot in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Weinberl in On the Razzle and Ariel in The Tempest. As arranger for five-part harmony group Johnny 5, Colin sang at theatreMAD's West End Christmas 2008 at the Actors Church in Covent Garden and at this year's Sonnet Walk, commemorating Shakespeare's birthday, for the Globe Theatre under the direction of Mark Rylance.

Other stage credits include the Ghost of Christmas Past at Birmingham REP and I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, a contemporary opera at Theatre Royal Stratford East. The story takes place in the aftermath of the 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles, and covers the reactions of all characters to the event. The main characters are seven young Americans all living in Los Angeles but from different social and ethnic backgrounds. In 2011, he was cast as Lorenzo de' Medici in the program Leonardo.^[2] The first series of Leonardo was shot on location in South Africa throughout the second half of 2010. A second series was completed on location in Cape Town and was aired in 2012.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Shelfstackers	Dan	Pilot
	Hounded	Barry/Buck	13 episodes
2012	Leonardo	Lorenzo de' Medici	26 episodes (main character)

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	The Last Story	Yurick	Voice
2015	Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward	Alphinaud	voice

References

1. Mason, Tom. "Leonardo On CBBC". Comix 411. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
2. BBC, Press Office. "Leonardo: Colin Ryan plays Lorenzo". Retrieved 28 March 2011.

External links

• Colin Ryan at the Internet Movie Database