Matthew James Shively Jr. (born September 15, 1990)[1][2] is an American actor best known for his role as Ryan Laserbeam on the Nickelodeon television series True Jackson, VP.
[3] Beginning in June 2011, he began appearing on two more Nickelodeon shows: Winx Club as Sky and The Troop as Kirby.
[11] Shively's film career began in 2011, when he was cast in a minor role in the horror comedy April Apocalypse.
[14] Andy Webster of the New York Times found Shively's performance "delightful" and generally praised the picture.
[16] Shively also appeared the independent feature film Bucky and the Squirrels, a 2014 mockumentary directed by Allan Katz about a wacky 1960s psychedelic rock band whose airplane crashes in snowy mountains.