The world might not recognize actor Ryan Quantan if one day the Australian shark showed great determination and ate a young surfer for lunch. But luck that day was not on her side. Ryan’s career as an actor could also not have taken place if mom hadn’t taken him to audition in order to support her brother, as a result of which the younger brother had failed, and he had passed.
Biography
Ryan Quantan was born in 1976 in Sydney, Australia. His father worked as a lifeguard at sea, his mother in a charity. His father instilled in Ryan a love of sports, and as a child he was quite successful in golf, biathlon, tennis and surfing. Once at sea he had to flee from a group of sharks, and he did it successfully.
Ryan planned to connect his life with one of the sports that he had been practicing since childhood. However, the case decided everything for him: by mistake, he got auditioned at an acting agency instead of Mitchell's younger brother, and passed the casting.
So unexpectedly in high school, Kvanten became an aspiring actor. When he was sixteen, the first role in the series "Primitive Practice" came.
However, then Ryan did not fully understand what he wants to do in life, and therefore entered the University of Sydney to get a business education. In parallel, he acted in films: for example, in his student years, Quanten began work on the role of Winnie Patterson in the popular soap opera Home and Away, in which he participated for five years in a row.
Realizing that acting is his calling, he moved to California to find recognition of his acting talent there.
Hollywood Career
Ryan did not have ambitions at that time, and he began to go to auditions, hoping to get a decent role. A few months later he played a cameo role in the film "Operative".
At the beginning of 2004, Quantan was finally invited to the main role in the series "Eternal Summer", then again there were episodic roles. And 2008 brought the actor real fame: the audience saw him in the mystical series "True Blood". The film was praised by critics and viewers, Ryan began to recognize on the street.
Since then, the filmography of Ryan Quantan has replenished with dozens of roles. Critics consider his best films to be Flick (2006) and Legends of the Night Watch (2010), and the series include Wizard: Land of the Great Dragon (1997) and New Girl (2018).
Quanten also has production projects - he wants to help young actors advance, because he remembers how difficult it was for him at first in Hollywood.
Ryan successfully combines creativity with sports: he is still engaged in surfing, and also conducts yoga classes.
