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JayRyan

  • Actor
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Jay Ryan (aka Jay Bunyan) narrated hit series Go Girls, as a mechanic trying to understand his female friends. By then he'd acted on-screen for over a decade, including teen hit Being Eve, and a Logie Award nominated run on Australian soap Neighbours. In 2012 Ryan starred in an American update of Beauty and the Beast, as an "anti-superhero". Four seasons later, he joined award-winning euthanasia series Mary Kills People. After a Logie nomination for Aussie military drama Fighting Season, he co-starred in the sequel to Stephen King's It. He went on to play the lone male on Kiwi dystopian series Creamierie, before joining Tūhoe Raids movie Muru.

Screenography

The Ridge
2025 As: Ewan Series
2022 As: Gallagher Film
Together Forever Tea
2021 As: Matt Slater Television
Creamerie
2021 - 2023 As: Bobby Series
The Furnace
2020 As: Sergeant Shaw Film

Awards

2024 New Zealand Television Awards / Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor: for Creamerie, Season 2

“I think he just wants to settle down with his wife or girl, have a family and become sensible Kev. However that doesn't quite happen... ”

Jay Ryan, on his Go Girls role