Tyler Ritter

Biography

Tyler Ritter (born January 31, 1985) is an American actor best known as the star of The McCarthys. Ritter is the son of the late John Ritter (1948-2003) and brother of Jason Ritter. He grew up in Los Angeles. He acted in high school plays and student films, but did not immediately pursue acting professionally. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, he worked for three years as a teacher in Argentina, where he married director Lelia Parma. He returned to Los Angeles and began a career as an actor at age 25, and has had guest roles on Modern Family and Grey's Anatomy. He landed the starring role on the 2014 sitcom The McCarthys, playing Ronny McCarthy, the openly gay son in a family of six.

Known For

Life in Text.
Life in Text.
Who Killed Cooper Dunn?
Who Killed Cooper Dunn?
An Evergreen Christmas
An Evergreen Christmas
Stillwater
Stillwater

Filmography

2023 Painkiller
as US Attorney John Brownlee
2022 Who Killed Cooper Dunn?
as Dawson
2019 Merry Happy Whatever
as Alan
2018 Homecoming
as Lane
2018 Stillwater
as Dawson
2017 The Good Doctor
as George Reynolds
2015 Chicago Med
as Derek Walker
2014 An Evergreen Christmas
as Adam
2014 The McCarthys
as Ronny McCarthy
2014 NCIS: New Orleans
as Luca Sciuto
2014 Young & Hungry
as Adam Foley
2013 Life in Text.
as Benjamin
2013 Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
as Thomas Ward
2012 Arrow
as Detective Billy Malone
2010 Hot in Cleveland
as Bart
2009 Modern Family
as Randall
2008 Good Dick
as Young Handsome Man
2005 Grey's Anatomy
as Paul Zarr
2003 NCIS
as Luca Sciuto