Colton Ryan (born June 10, 1995) is an American actor and singer. He is known for his performance as Conrad "Coco" Roy in the Hulu miniseries The Girl from Plainville (2022), and for playing Connor Murphy, a role in which he understudied in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen and reprised in the 2021 film adaptation. He is also known for originating Gene Laine in Girl from the North Country, and the main role of Samuel on the Apple TV+ series Little Voice.
Ryan was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. Ryan attended the School for the Creative and Performing Arts (SCAPA) for grades six through twelve, where he majored in theatre. His acting career took off in 2015 while attending Baldwin Wallace University when he played Dickon in the Idaho Shakespeare Festival production of The Secret Garden.
He made his Broadway debut in 2016 as the standby for Evan Hansen, Connor Murphy and Jared Kleinman in Dear Evan Hansen, which he stayed until 2017, when he graduated with his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Baldwin Wallace University. That same year, he made his television debut in a guest role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and then played the recurring role of J.J. Elkins on the Showtime series Homeland the following year.

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