Ryan Slater

Ryan Slater is an actor who was born in New York City in 1983. His mother, casting director Mary Jo Slater, helped him begin working in commercials, films, and television, and the family relocated to Los Angeles in the late 1980s. He starred in many movies in the 1990s and studied in Los Angeles at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. At 19 he stopped acting to concentrate on school. He later earned a degree in Japanese from a university in San Francisco, spent considerable time in Japan and Guam, and in Japan booked a series of television commercials and even sang in Japanese. After coming back to the United States, he distributed films for a Japanese production company and also worked in casting as an assistant and associate. He eventually started a return to acting.