Colin Santisuk Green (born 23 June 1986), known professionally as Colin Ryan, is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Lorenzo de Medici in the

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series '' Leonardo'', Harry in the ''

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'' series 10 episode " Knock Knock", and as the voice of Alphinaud Leveilleur in ''

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'' from the '' Heavensward'' expansion onward.

Early life and education

Ryan was born in

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, England, on 23 June 1986. His father is from Birmingham and his mother is Thai and Chinese. Ryan trained at Arts Educational Schools,

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, and graduated in 2009. His first job after graduation was with Rufus Hound in sci-fi comedy '' Hounded'' for

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. He also did the pilot for

Switch comedy '' Shelfstackers''.

Career

Stage roles at drama school include Caiaphas the Elder and Simon the Zealot in '' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot'', Weinberl in '' On the Razzle'' and Ariel in ''

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''. Other stage credits include the ''

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'' at Birmingham REP and '' I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky'', a contemporary opera at

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. The story takes place in the aftermath of the 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles, and covers the reactions of all characters to the event. The main characters are seven young Americans all living in

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but from different social and ethnic backgrounds. In 2011, he was cast as

Lorenzo de' Medici Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (), known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (; 1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492), was an Italian statesman, the ''de facto'' ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Lore ...

in the program '' Leonardo''. The first series of ''Leonardo'' was shot on location in

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throughout the second half of 2010. A second series was completed on location in

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and aired in 2012.

Personal life

In 2024 during a Twitch livestream, Ryan revealed that he is diagnosed with autism, and stated that he suffers from overstimulation on a regular basis.https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2144197474

Work

Television

Video games

Theatre

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ryan, Colin 1986 births 21st-century English male actors Actors educated at the Arts Educational Schools Autistic actors English actors with disabilities English male stage actors English male television actors English male video game actors English male voice actors English people of Chinese descent English people of Thai descent Living people Male actors from Birmingham, West Midlands