Jason Morgan Ritter is an American actor, and the son of actress Nancy Morgan and late actor John Ritter, known for his roles as Kevin Girardi in the television series Joan of Arcadia, as Sean Walker in the National Broadcasting Company series The Event, and as the voice of Dipper Pines in Gravity Falls.
Background
Ritter was born on February 17, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, the son of Nancy Morgan and John Ritter (1948-2003), and the grandson of musician/actor, Tex Ritter and Dorothy Fay. Ritter first appeared in the opening credits of his father"s show, Three"s Company.
Education
He attended middle and high school at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California, with Simon Helberg, who became his roommate at New York University. He then attended and graduated from New York University"s Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied at the Atlantic Theater Company. He also studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, United Kingdom.
Career
He has three siblings, including actor Tyler Ritter. In 2002, he appeared in the movies Procter and Gamble and Swimfan. In 2003, Ritter had a major role in the slasher/horror film Freddy versus
Jason as Will Rollins.
He appeared in Raise Your Voice and Happy Endings. In 2008, he released Good Dick, a movie which he produced and starred in along with his long term girlfriend at the time, Marianna Palka (with whom she began a relationship after meeting in Queens in October 1999), who also wrote and directed the film.
Ritter has volunteered as an actor with the Young Storytellers Program. Ritter has appeared in the Music Television show Punk"daughter
Ritter also starred as Sean Walker in the season-long National Broadcasting Company drama series The Event, which premiered on September 20, 2010.
Ritter will be seen alongside Kate French in the upcoming short film, Atlantis, a romance film centered around two strangers who fall in love during the preparation for the final launch of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration space shuttle Atlantis. He has a recurring role on National Broadcasting Company"s Parenthood. lieutenant was confirmed in early March 2013 that he would play Gavin opposite Alexis Bledel"s Stacey in Us & Them, FOX"s sitcom pilot based on the British television show Gavin & Stacey.
He dated actress and director Marianna Palka.
They"ve since broken up. As of 2015, he"s in a relationship with actress Melanie Lynskey.