Ricardo Hoyos

Ricardo Hoyos is a Canadian actor who started acting as a child, taking episodic television roles in 2007 at age twelve. He was born in Alliston, Ontario. He played Sasha in the 2007 television movie The Secret of the Nutcracker, his first film credit, then took the part of Jacob in Toronto Stories, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, and appeared in Outlander (2008). He went on to play Ricardo Sanchez in the children's series Dino Dan in 2010 and Zig Novak in Degrassi: The Next Generation from 2012 to 2015, a role he reprised in Degrassi: Next Class and other sequels. He voiced Apex in Redakai: Conquer the Kairu in 2012. Later credits include Truth or Dare (2017), Bumblebee (2018), in which he played Tripp Summers, and episodic work on Riverdale and Flower Shop Mysteries.