Ryan
Cartwright (born 14 March 1981) is an English actor. He has lived in
Los Angeles, California, since 2006.
He began acting with the Central Junior Television Workshop. His first major role came at the age of 15 in the British ITV comedy-drama The Grimleys. He has also appeared in such other British television programmes as Seriously Weird, Hardware, Donovan, Microsoap, Look Around You and All About Me.
Since moving to the US, Cartwright had a recurring role on the television series Bones as the laboratory intern Vincent Nigel-Murray, until the death of his character in the season 6 episode The Hole in the Heart. He also completed filming a Hallmark Channel television film, Dear Prudence alongside Jane Seymour, in which he used an American accent. He had a recurring role (as upper class Briton John Hooker) on Season 3 of Mad Men.
He played Gary Bell, a character with autism, on the Syfy television series Alphas (2011–2012). To prepare for the role, Cartwright consulted with people who worked with people with autism, watched documentaries, read blogs created by people with autism, and books from authors with autism, such as Temple Grandin and Daniel Tammet. Cartwright's portrayal of Bell has earned praise from the neurological science community, crediting his complexity for eschewing stereotypes of autism previously displayed in mass media.
Cartwright is the younger brother of British actor Che Cartwright.
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Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
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2007 |
Virgin Territory |
Ghino |
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2011 |
Sironia |
Nick |
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2015 |
Vacation |
Terry |
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2016 |
Independence Day 2 |
David's Assistant |
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2017 |
Father Figures |
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Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
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1997, 1999–2001 |
The Grimleys |
Darren Grimley |
Main cast, 22 episodes |
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1997 |
Dangerfield |
Ian Thomson |
Episode: "Contact" |
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1998 |
Microsoap |
David |
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2000 |
Doctors |
Henry Lincoln |
Episode: "Cheated" |
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2002 |
All About Me |
Peter |
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2002 |
Seriously Weird |
Harris Pembleton |
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2003–2004 |
Hardware |
Steve |
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2002, 2004–2011 |
Freak Like Me |
Nick / N |
Series 1 as Nick, Series 4-10 as N |
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2004–2006 |
DNA |
Seth Donovan |
3 episodes |
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2005 |
Look Around You |
Sam McNamara |
Episode: "Live Final" |
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2005 |
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky |
Rex |
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2008 |
Dear Prudence |
Nigel Forsythe III |
TV film |
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2008–2011 |
Bones |
Vincent Nigel-Murray |
Recurring character, 11 episodes |
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2009 |
Mad Men |
John Hooker |
Recurring character, 5 episodes |
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2011–2012 |
Alphas |
Gary Bell |
Main cast, 24 episodes |
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2012 |
The Big Bang Theory |
Cole |
Episode: "The 43 Peculiarity" |
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2014 |
Warehouse 13 |
Oswald |
Episode: "A Faire to Remember" |
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2014 |
Mom |
Jeff Taylor |
4 episodes |
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2015 |
Truth Be Told |
Josh |
Episode: "Psychic Chicken" |
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2016–present |
Kevin Can Wait |
Chale |
Main cast, 24 episodes |
The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers. The show premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007. The series' tenth season premiered on September 19, 2016. In March 2017, the series was renewed for two additional seasons, bringing its total to twelve, and running through the 2018–19 television season. The eleventh season premiered on September 25, 2017.
The show is primarily centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, both physicists at Caltech, who share an apartment; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who later becomes a pharmaceutical representative and who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's similarly geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers, aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali. The geekiness and intellect of the four men are contrasted for comic effect with Penny's social skills and common sense.
Over time, supporting characters have been promoted to starring roles: Leslie Winkle, a physicist who dated Leonard and Howard; neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler, who joins the group after being matched to Sheldon on a dating website (and later becomes Sheldon's girlfriend); Bernadette Rostenkowski, Howard's wife (previously his girlfriend), a microbiologist and former part-time waitress alongside Penny; Stuart Bloom, the cash-strapped owner of the comic book store the characters often visit; and Emily Sweeney, a dermatologist who dated Raj.