Born and raised in Palmdale, CA. Ryan worked multiple minimum wage jobs while honing his craft, and looking for what he loved and wanted to do with his life. Surrounding himself with cartoons and movies from a young age, he eventually moved his interest to Japanese cartoons, anime, and Japan's rich culture. Watching thousands of hours of anime, becoming almost obsessed, when a spark went off "I will get involved with this industry at any cost." About a week after coming to this realization, he started drawing, buying posters and generally surrounding himself with anything to do with anime. After reading an article about how hard it was to get into the niche of the anime industry he became disheartened with the pursuit of anime. But that did not stop Ryan. Months later he got the opportunity to go to Beehive Studio in Los Angeles with a friend as he was acting in the anime written by Stan Lee, ''The Reflection.'' Getting a chance to be in any situation where he was around other like minded people he jumped on the chance. After acting in his first role as a background voice actor for an episode of the reflection he knew that this was going to be his life. He actively pursues roles in Japanese animation.