Ryan McCartan
Ryan McCartan was born in Excelsior, Minnesota, United States on June 14th, 1993 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 30, Ryan McCartan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Ryan Jerome McCartan, Jr. (born June 14, 1993) is an American actor and singer.
As an actor, he is best known for his appearances on television shows Diggie Smalls and Maddie and as Brad Majors in the 2016 Fox musical television film Let's Do the Time Warp Again.
McCartan is also known as one half of the pop duo The Girl and the Dreamcatcher.
Jason "J.D." was also played by McCartan. Dean appeared in Heathers: The Musical in Los Angeles (2013) and the original off-Broadway (2014) versions.
In Wicked's Broadway production, he also played Fiyero, the main love interest.
Early life
McCartan was born in Excelsior, Minnesota. Conn McCartan, his father, was the principal at Eden Prairie High School until he retired in 2018.
Personal life
Dove Cameron, the actor and singer who appeared in Liv & Maddie in August 2013, began dating Dove Cameron, who was his Liv & Maddie co-star. Dove Cameron was 17 years old at the time, and McCartan was 20 years old. Cameron declared that he was his fiancée on April 14, 2016, but that their relationship came to an end in October 2016. He has been dating Samantha Fekete, with whom he runs Sam & Ryan's YouTube channel.
McCartan announced on a tweet on July 29, 2014 that he had been suffering from diabetes since age six. In a conversation, McCartan said he had been sexually assaulted by a theatre mentor when he was 12 years old. McCartan responded with "Fuck yeah I would." When asked by a fan on Instagram if he would have a friendship with a guy, he replied, "I would." Love is the product of passion. Period. "I've been with guys."
Career
McCartan began his career with a minor part in the stage version of Disney's High School Musical in 2007. In 2011 he starred in the titular role in Minnesota's first regional production of The Phantom of The Opera. That same year, he won Best Performance by an Actor at the Jimmy Awards, given out by The Broadway League to the top performers in high school musical productions.
In 2013 McCartan began playing the recurring role of Diggie on the Disney Channel comedy Liv and Maddie. In 2015 he starred in the direct-to-video film R.L. Stine's Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls. In 2016 McCartan was cast in the lead role of Brad Majors in the 2016 Fox musical television film The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again.
In May 2015 Dove Cameron announced that she and McCartan were officially forming a pop duo and would be releasing their first original song. In September 2015, they announced their group's name would be The Girl and the Dreamcatcher, and their first video was released in October 2015.
On September 11, 2018, McCartan made his Broadway debut as Fiyero in the musical Wicked. He remained with the show through May 12, 2019.
He also originated the role of Jason Dean in the original off-Broadway cast of the musical Heathers, which ran from March through August 2014, after playing the role in the Los Angeles tryout in 2013. In mid-2018 he originated the lead role of Eddie Corbin in the new musical Mutt House at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and in August 2019 he played Lt. Cable in South Pacific at the Aspen Music Festival.
He also starred in the role of Mac in the Roundabout Theatre Company's new musical Scotland PA. In November 2019 he made his solo show debut at Feinstein's/54 Below. He joined the cast of Frozen on Broadway as Hans in February 2020. However, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all Broadway theatres were closed. Disney later announced, on May 14, 2020, that Frozen would not reopen after the lockdown is lifted.
McCartan has taken part in numerous promotions of new musicals such as Within Earshot and King of Pangaea.
McCartan is part of the Rodgers and Hammerstein goes Pop! project producing a single version of This Nearly Was Mine.
In April 2020, he hosted the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS viewing of 25 Years of Disney Broadway.
He is part of the cast of two upcoming movies: The F*ck Happened and Love You Anyway.
He most recently played Hans in the Broadway National tour of Frozen. His final performance was Sunday, September 4th, 2022.