Ryan Bartley

Ryan Bartley is an actress from Fort Worth, Texas, who began performing at six with a musical theater touring company and also appeared in plays and musicals at a Creative Arts Theater and School in Arlington. She went on to a magnet arts high school in Dallas, Booker T. Washington High School, known for the performing and visual arts, then moved into voice work, recording radio spots for Radio Disney and voicing Emi Ito, the lead in a New Horizon English textbook used in Japanese classrooms. She finished high school a year early and relocated to Los Angeles, where her first major feature was the Lifetime movie Queensized. She also lent her voice to Build-A-Bear Workshop radio campaigns, earned a degree in Cinema-Television Critical Studies at the University of Southern California while minoring in screenwriting, and hosted many episodes of The Cutting Edge, attending the 2010 Sundance Film Festival for the university.