- Source of Wealth: Film, Television, Voice
- Age: 60
- Birth Place: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Height: 6′ 6″ (1.98 m)
- Marital Status: Married (Patricia McDonald)
- Full Name: Ryan Lee Stiles
- Nationality: Canadian-American
- Date of Birth: April 22, 1959
- Occupation: Actor, Comedian, Director, Voice Actor
- Education: R.C. Palmer Junior Secondary School, Richmond Senior Secondary
- Children: 3 (Mackenzie, Claire, Sam)
American-Canadian actor, comedian, director, and voice actor, Ryan Lee Stiles has an estimated net worth of $6.5 million. Master of improvisational comedy, tall, rangy, and rubber-faced Ryan Stiles is best known for playing comic Drew Carey’s best friend in the ABC sitcom The Drew Carey Show.
Born on April 22, 1959 in Seattle, Washington, U.S., Stiles entered the entertainment industry as a standup comedian in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was not the career his parents had hoped he would choose, but Stiles managed to make a living for a few years.
In the mid-’80s, Stiles switched gears and joined the Second City comedy group in Toronto, renowned for its highly topical and fast-paced sketches. While in there, Stiles grew adept at improvising.
In 1990, he transferred to the Los Angeles Second City troupe and, before long, the six-foot, five-inch redhead was working on television and in feature films. He made his film debut in Rainbow War (1986). Stiles’ early television credits include guest-starring roles on Parker Lewis Can’t Lose,Mad About You and Two and a Half Men. Outside of The Drew Carey Show, he had his greatest success as a regular on the British improvisational series Whose Line Is It, Anyway?, which found an American audience on the Comedy Central cable network. During the show’s run (1988-1993), it won four CableACE awards. The show was revised and updated, as a replacement series on ABC, in the summer of 1998.