James Leo Ryan, also known as Jimmy or Jim, is an American stage, film, and television actor born in 1975 He is one of three children and an alumnus of Loy Norrix High School and Denison University.
[citation needed] In May 2014, Ryan guest starred as Marino in "The Song of Ant", an episode of the MOCAtv web series, "Ambiance Man", with Fred Armisen.
[citation needed] He was in a musical adaptation of the 1985 film Mask at the Pasadena Playhouse and in The Last Night of Ballyhoo as Peachy Weil at the La Mirada Theatre.
He has also been on Broadway as Reuben in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Sam Harris, Claquesous in Les Misérables with Colm Wilkinson, and Rooster Hannigan in Annie with Nell Carter.
On 10 October 1998, Ryan appeared in a concert version of Jubilee at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the benefit of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, which was directed by Herbert Ross and featured many Broadway stars including Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Alice Ripley.