Ayala debuted as an actor at the age of 22 with the film En peligro de muerte ("In danger of death")[1] and after completing his studies at the Centro de Educación Artística (CEA) of Televisa three years later he obtained a small role in Mi pequeña Soledad ("My little Soledad") with Verónica Castro.

[citation needed] In 1992, he appeared on Baila conmigo where he met Karla Álvarez, who he would later marry.

Both actors had shared the television screen in Cuando llega el amor ("When love arrives").

In 1999 he obtained his first starring role in Tres mujeres and with fellow actor and friend Sergio Mayer he produced the show Sólo para Mujeres where with Mayer and other celebrities they performed a strip-tease.

The show was later presented in other Latin American countries and the United States.