User:Shaun Ryan

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Shaun Ryan was born on April 27, 1977 in Stuart, Florida to his mother Freda Horner and father Robert Gordon. Robert chose not to be involved in his life until Shaun was 15 and went off to college to pursue business. Shaun lived in Port St. Lucie, Florida with his Mother and Grandmother until the age of 5. Within those five years his mother married and divorced, having fraternal twins and giving Shaun a brother and a sister. The man she married, Joseph Guarino, would come to be a father figure to Shaun. After divorcing Freda decided to move to Vineland, New Jersey. She met Clifford Green and ended up having a daughter and moving in with him for several years. Clifford and Freda decided to end their relationship but stayed in close contact as did the twins father and both were important to Shaun along with his mother. At the age of 8 Shaun's mom moved back to Florida, this time to Orlando where Shaun's mother had another sister. This would be where Shaun, his mother and siblings would stay for approximately two decades.

Shaun has been involved in modeling since the age of 19 and discovered his passion for acting almost a decade later. His aspirations of making a career in modeling at the age of 21 were put on hold because he became a father, got married and worked a full-time job to take care of the family. Within a year Shaun had divorced his wife and was dating the woman he would marry two and a half years later. Within nine months his second marriage would be over. Shaun had custody of his daughter from approximately the age of nine months until she was seven and a half. At this time he moved to Los Angeles with hopes of bringing her along but the court system didn't deem it best for her. Before becoming an actor he worked at Burger King, was an installer of residential security alarms, was involved in various sales and marketing positions, was a stockbroker for two years and also a daytrader. Before moving to Los Angeles for his career in acting Shaun trained with Ken Eulo and the New York Acting Ensemble to learn technique, work on scene study, voice and characterization before attending Ken's Master Class. Theatrically trained Shaun developed an immeasurable passion for the art of acting on stage as well as film.