Ryan Ward (actor)

Ryan Ward (born January 2, 1979) is a Canadian actor, film director and screenwriter.[1] He is best known for his debut feature film as a director, Son of the Sunshine, for which Ward and Matthew Heiti were shortlisted Genie Award nominees for Best Original Screenplay at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012.[2]

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba,[3] he now splits his time between Winnipeg and Los Angeles. [4]As an actor, he had primarily supporting roles in films, including Nostradamus, We Ate the Children Last and Sidekick, prior to Son of the Sunshine, as well as a long-running stage role in the original Off-Broadway and Toronto productions of Evil Dead The Musical for which he was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award.[5][6][7]

He has also directed the short films In the Beginning was Water and Sky (PBS, National Film Board of Canada), Amerika, Time Traveling Through Time, and Our Secret.[8][9]

In 2023 Ward is slated to release Daughter of the Sun, a film which has been billed as a continuation of Son of the Sunshine.[10]

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