Biography

Matt Ryan

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Ryan was born in Swansea, the son of Steve (a postman turned record producer) and Maria Evans, a dance teacher. He attended schools in Penyrheol before moving on to Gorseinon College, where he completed a BTEC Performing Arts course. He graduated from the Bristol Old Vic in 2003 and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2004. As a child, Ryan appeared as Gavroche in the West End production of Les Misérables. He played Mick Rawson on the CBS series Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, a character that had been introduced in the Criminal Minds episode "The Fight". He performed the voice and motion capture of Edward Kenway in Ubisoft Montreal's video game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. In February 2014, it was announced that Ryan was cast as John Constantine in NBC's pilot for Constantine. He starred in all 13 Episodes of the first and only season. He is set to reprise his role in an episode of Arrow.
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Graduated from the Bristol Old Vic in 2003 and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2004.
Matt plays John Constantine in three different forms. The first was a claymation version in John Con Noir, which was a short promoting Constantine, where he was John in live action. After NBC canceled Constantine after one season on the air, he made a live action cameo for the CW show Arrow, then played John Constantine in the animated film Justice League Dark.
After the cancellation of Constantine (2014), he reprised the role of John Constantine in the Arrow (2012) episode Haunted (2015).
He has played the same character (John Constantine) in five different television series: Arrow (2012), The Flash (2014), Constantine (2014), Legends of Tomorrow (2016) and Batwoman (2019).
One of his maternal great-grandfathers, Victor Dubensky (later Dubens), was a Jewish emigrant from Odessa.

I love Michael Keaton. I think he's awesome - he's such an awesome actor - like the 'Beetlejuice' films. I just love that Tim Burton stuff.
I have a statue of Superman. It's actually a big one... It's a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that's a little prized possession of mine.
Batman and Superman are probably my favorite superheroes - apart from Constantine.
You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.
'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.