KJ Apa as Ryan Connolly - Whiplash (2025) Fan Cast | myCast.io
KJ Apa
Age: 29
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Keneti James Fitzgerald Apa (born 17 June 1997) is a New Zealand actor, singer, and musician. He began acting playing Kane Jenkins in the New Zealand primetime soap opera Shortland Street from 2013 to 2015. Apa is best known for portraying Archie Andrews on The CW television series Riverdale (2017-2023), for which he won a Saturn Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.
Andrew Neiman, a young and ambitious jazz drummer and music student, is pushed to his limit by his abusive instructor, Terence Fletcher, at a prestigious and cutthroat New York City music conservatory.
