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Ryan Eggold has built a career playing men you want to trust, even when television writers are giving you very good reasons not to. From mysterious operatives to compassionate doctors, he has shown a remarkable ability to move between romance, suspense, comedy, and drama while keeping audiences firmly on his side.

Born on August 10, 1984, in Lakewood, California, Eggold developed an interest in acting while still in school and later studied theater arts at the University of Southern California. After graduating, he quickly began appearing on television, landing guest roles in series including Veronica Mars, Entourage, Brothers & Sisters, and The Young and the Restless. His first major recurring role came as teacher Ryan Matthews on 90210, where he discovered that supervising fictional teenagers could apparently be excellent preparation for the considerably more dangerous characters waiting later in his career.

Eggold took a sharp turn into intrigue when he joined NBC's The Blacklist as Tom Keen, husband of FBI profiler Elizabeth Keen. Tom initially appeared to be an ordinary schoolteacher, which in the world of The Blacklist was practically proof that something suspicious was going on. The character evolved into a complicated operative with shifting identities, loyalties, and secrets, and Eggold's performance made Tom one of the show's most memorable characters. He later carried the role into the spin-off series The Blacklist: Redemption.

In 2018, Eggold traded espionage for medicine when he took the lead role of Dr. Max Goodwin in NBC's New Amsterdam. As the hospital's idealistic medical director, Max regularly challenged bureaucracy by asking his trademark question, "How can I help?" Eggold gave the character warmth, determination, humor, and just enough disregard for administrative convention to make hospital management considerably more exciting than anyone had previously thought possible.

His career has also extended well beyond network television. Eggold has appeared in numerous films and independent productions and has worked behind the camera as a writer and director. He is also a musician who plays several instruments, proving that apparently simply being a successful television and film actor wasn't keeping him sufficiently occupied.

Through romantic drama, international conspiracies, hospital emergencies, and independent filmmaking, Ryan Eggold has demonstrated an impressive versatility. He can play charming, troubled, heroic, secretive, or occasionally all four before the next commercial break.

Happy Birthday to Ryan Eggold, an actor who taught television audiences two valuable lessons: always question the perfectly pleasant schoolteacher in a spy thriller, and never underestimate a hospital administrator willing to ignore the paperwork.

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