Ryan is an actor that also goes by his stage name, "Ryan Q. Tran." He was born on May 1st, 1993, in Aurora, Colorado to two immigrant parents from Vietnam, and is the youngest of three boys. He wasn't an actor since a young age, and actually graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Biology. His passion for the ocean is still there, as he teaches after school to students about Marine Biology. He has always had a lingering interest in acting, and fell in love with it soon after taking his first acting class. He studies a modernized Meisner technique called the "Seven Pillars of Acting" created by his acting teacher/mentor, Sonya Cooke.