RESUME:

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Acting & Modeling Objectives:
Movies
Films
TV Shows
Commercials
Commercial Print

Experience:
FEATURE FILM:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Joel Barish - age 6 Focus Features

Television:
Blue's Clues - voice over - Nickelodeon

Stage:
"The Missing Choir of Soda Springs" - Vinny - Olde Town Hall Theatre

Ryan was also interviewed by Cleveland News channels ABC 5 , and FOX 8 about his career and part in the movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.

COMMERCIALS / VOICE OVERS:
McDonald's - voice over - Beachwood Studios
AmeriSuites - Principal - DuBois Productions
American Dental Centers - Principal (VOC) - HWR Productions
Sunrise Propane Info. Video - Principal - Creative Technology
FLA USA / Visit Florida Pitch - Voice Over - YBP / i.d.e.a.s.
Friendly's - Principal - Laughlin Constable
Burdine's - Principal (VOC) - 22 East Advertising

STAGE PERFORMANCES:
Tiny Tim's Christmas - Johnny - Olde Town Hall Theatre
Bah-Humbug: Scrooge's Christmas Carol - Tiny Tim - Olde Town Hall Theatre
Sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" - Elyria City Talent Showcase
Performed "Yankee Doodle Dandee" - Gremore Dance Recital

PRINT:
Over 3 years experience. Little Tikes, Century, Purina, Disney.

Training:
Acting for Theater: Annie Crabtree. Cumberland County Playhouse
Sharron Anderson, MAD Factory
Acting for TV: Barry Shapiro
Dance: Lois Gremore 2 years tap

Special Skills:
Acting, singing, dirt bike riding, fishing, memorization, modeling, basketball, and baseball.


Charu Gupta
The Chronicle-Telegram
WELLINGTON — Ryan Whitney can’t keep still. The 7-year-old Penfield Elementary first-grader runs to his room, his hair slicked back Ace Ventura style. He runs back, talking a lot and fast, pointing at photos of Jim Carrey and the comic’s autograph.
There’s a reason for all the Carrey mania in Ryan’s life lately.

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Ryan Whitney with co-stars Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet and Lola.He was cast as the younger version of the Hollywood icon’s character in “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” a movie staring Carrey and Kate Winslet set to be released in March.
When told he looks a lot like Carrey, Ryan cracks a crooked grin and says, “I know.”
But nobody in his family guessed how uncanny the resemblance is until the movie’s casting directors called in December after more than 100 children tried out for the part.
Kandi Whitney’s phone rang about a month later, but it was not the traditional call back for another audition. It was a job offer for her son.
In April, Ryan went to Bayonne, N.J., to shoot eight scenes over three days.
“Smashing a bird with a hammer,” he said, was his favorite part of the movie. The bird was already dead, he said, but it took five takes before he got it right.
There’s nothing about being in the movie he didn’t like, he said. “Except that it’s rated ‘R’.”
Carrey’s autograph is scribbled on a yellow cover page of the script. It’s a framed piece of history for Ryan and it reads in capital letters: “TO RYAN, YOU SMELL FUNNY.”
“He wanted him to write something funny,” Kandi Whitney said. Ryan grinned again.
Winslet’s autograph reads: “To Ryan, with lots of love.”
Ryan doesn’t like telling his friends at school, Penfield Elementary, about the movie. “They don’t believe him,” Kandi Whitney said.
“I just want to keep going to Penfield,” Ryan said. “I don’t want to go to Florida,” he said about the family’s winter destination, where he models for Visit Florida print ads.
“It’s like having friends I know rather than having friends I don’t know.”
To get to places like New York and Florida, Ryan’s mother and grandmother, Kathy Marlett, sharing driving responsibilities for eight-plus hours on the road.
The three drove to and from New York auditions for more than a year before landing any parts. Ryan’s grandfather recently bought the family a new van, outfitted with a television and hookups for Ryan’s video games.
“It’s normal to us because we’ve been doing it for so long,” Whitney said.
But Whitney is anything but a stereotypical “stage mom,” said Brad Speck, Ryan’s Cleveland agent with The Talent Group. “She doesn’t get in the way.”
Laura Vanwinkle is an agent with Ryan’s New York management team.
“You can have a great kid, but if the mom isn’t willing to come in, it doesn’t work,” Vanwinkle said. Many parents give up after the third or fourth audition and no call back. “As human beings, we don’t like people who don’t like our kids,” she said.
What helps Ryan is being a good-looking kid who can also act, Vanwinkle said. “He reads fluently and he’s a good little actor,” she said.
Whitney and Marlett think so, too.
It all started when a salesman thought Ryan was a natural. Ryan was 3. Since then, Ryan has been in plays, voice-overs for McDonald’s radio commercials and Nickelodeon and print ads for AmeriSuites and American Dental Centers.
“Hopefully, he’ll be a big movie star someday,” Whitney said. That would help the family finances, too. “We thought it would pay well,” she said about the movie. The family is in debt from all the driving and hotels and eating out. They would like to open a college fund for Ryan in case he doesn’t choose acting when he gets older.
Until then, Ryan’s schedule is full. These days he rehearses four days a week for a Ridgeville Community Theater production.
He has 113 lines in “The Missing Choir of Soda Springs,” a play by Margo Haas about a traveling youth choir stranded in a snow storm.