Education
Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist
Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist
The previous year Ryan played Joanna in the 1997 film Metroland, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Julian Barnes. She starred in the Inspector Morse episode "The Daughters of Cain" as Kay Brooks. She has appeared in productions such as the BBC2 series Attachments, the film Britannic and the television adaptations of The Forsyte Saga and as Agnes Wickfield in the 1999 British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield and, more recently, as Verity Wright in EastEnders.
Ryan"s stage career includes credits in British productions of Patrick Marber"s Closer, Simon Gray"s Otherwise Engaged, Chekhov"s The Wood Demon and in 2008 the part of Cathy in an adaptation of Wuthering Heights by April De Angelis.