Ryan Parker started working in film and TV in 1996, with such productions as Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1997), Le suspect idéal (1997), Les secrets du silence (1997) and Serments mortels (1997). In 1999 he was awarded a Telly for his achievement in videography and editing. From 2004 to 2011 he traveled the US with Raleigh's flat-track roller derby team, the "Carolina Rollergirls", as the play-by-play announcer known as "Rockerboy - The Voice of the Carolina Rollergirls". Ryan's 2021 casting in Hulu's Dopesick (2021) allowed him become SAG eligible.