Thomas Jay Ryan Biography (1962-)

Born August 1, 1962, in Pittsburgh, PA; raised in Canada.

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Appearances
My Head Was a Sledgehammer, off-off-Broadway production, c. 1991
Samuel's Major Problems, c. 1991
Title role, Dracula, off-Broadway production, 1994
Venus, New York Shakespeare Festival, Martinson Hall, Public Theatre, New York City, 1996
Christmas at the Ivanovs', Classic Stage Company Theatre, New YorkCity, 1997
Soon (musical), Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria, 1998
Joxer Daly, Juno and the Paycock, Roundabout Theatre Company, Gramercy Theatre, New York City, 2000
Eilert Lovborg, Hedda Gabler, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC,2001
Frank, This Thing of Darkness, Atlantic Theatre, New York City, 2002
Parson, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Stanley-Sinsheimer Festival Glen, Santa Cruz, CA, 2002

Trigorin, The Sea Gull, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Stanley-SinsheimerFestival Glen, 2002
Scenes from a Marriage, Ohio Theatre, New York City, 2002
Andrei Vasilich Kovrin, The Black Monk, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 2003
Appeared in other productions, including As You Like It, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN; The Philadelphia Story, Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT; and as Michael Milken, The Predator's Ball (multimedia production), Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York City, and in Florence, Italy.
Film Appearances
Title role, Henry Fool, Sony Pictures Classics, 1998
Satan, The Book of Life, True Fiction Pictures, 1998
Spec Hammond, The Legend of Bagger Vance, DreamWorks, 2000
Home Sweet Hoboken, Allied Entertainment Group, 2000
Jimmy, Dischord, Artistic License, 2001
The Cloud of Unknowing, True Fiction Pictures, 2002
Noon Blue Apples, 2002
Television Appearances
Specials
Edgar Degas, Degas and the Dancer, HBO, 1998
Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist, HBO, 1999