Age: 30
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Ryan Potter is a U.S. actor, director, martial artist, photographer and philanthropist. He was born in Portland, Oregon but spent much of his childhood in Tokyo. At the age of seven, he moved back to the United States. Ryan started acting at the age of fifteen, after seeing a leaflet looking for candidates for a martial arts-themed Nickelodeon series, Supah Ninjas (2011). He was cast as Mike Fukanaga on the show, which ran from 2011 to 2013. He also played Fred's Best Friend on the series Fred: The Show (2012). In 2013, Ryan appeared in the short film Save the Date (2013). In 2014, he starred in both the independent film Senior Project (2014) and Disney's computer-animated superhero blockbuster Big Hero 6 (2014). In the latter film, he voiced the lead character, Hiro Hamada, a child prodigy who teams with a large robot. Ryan voiced Hiro again the video-game Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (2014). Ryan will next play Eric Barret in the film Underdog Kids (2015). In 2011, Ryan founded Toy Box of Hope, a charity for children living in homeless shelters and transitive living facilities.
BIG HERO 6 is Disney's adaptation of the same-named Marvel comic. Set in the fictional futuristic city of San Fransokyo, the story follows 14-year-old genius Hiro Hamada , who would rather spend his time fighting robots than going to school -- until his older brother, Tadashi , shows him the marvels of his university's robotics lab, where he and his friends work on amazing projects under the tutelage of department chair Professor Callaghan . Desperate to get into the program, Hiro invents microbots that can be controlled telepathically -- an invention so impressive that he's immediately accepted into the university. But just as Hiro and Tadashi are about to celebrate, a fire breaks out in the exhibit hall, killing Tadashi. All that's left of him is his inflatable robot Baymax , a cuddly "personal health companion" designed to help heal people. When Hiro discovers that his microbots weren't destroyed in the fire but are instead being controlled by a masked villain, he enlists Baymax and Tadashi's best friends -- Wasabi , Honey Lemon , GoGo , and Fred -- to find the masked man, who must be responsible for the fire that took his beloved brother's life.
