Ryan Michelle Bathe

Ryan Michelle Bathé (born July 27, 1976) is an American actress. She starred in the ABC legal drama series Boston Legal (2005–06), BET+ comedy-drama series First Wives Club (2019–22), and NBC crime thriller The Endgame (2022).

Early life
Bathe's mother is Clare Bathé, an actress and singer who was a member of the late 1970s funk/disco/rock group Machine. She grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. She graduated from Stanford University, and she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University. She is a member of the sorority Delta Sigma Theta.

Career
Bathe has had guest starring roles in a number of television shows, including ER, Half & Half, Girlfriends, Brothers & Sisters, and How I Met Your Mother. She was regular cast member during the second season of the ABC legal drama series Boston Legal playing attorney Sara Holt. From 2009 to 2010, she had a recurring role on the short-lived NBC medical drama Trauma, and in 2011 had starring role in the TV Land sitcom Retired at 35. She had main roles in the independent films All About Us and April Moon.

In 2012, Bathe co-starred opposite Katherine Heigl in the crime comedy film One for the Money. Later that year, she had a recurring role opposite her real life husband Sterling K. Brown in the Lifetime drama series Army Wives. In 2014, she was a female lead opposite Kevin Hart in the ABC comedy pilot Keep It Together. In 2016, Bathe was cast in a recurring role in the NBC drama series, This Is Us, also starring Brown.

In 2018, Bathe was cast as one of leads in the BET+ comedy-drama series First Wives Club based on the film of the same name written by Robert Harling. She left the series after two seasons in 2022. In 2020, she signed a first look deal with ViacomCBS. Bathe appeared in the 2020 romantic comedy film Sylvie's Love and the following year guest-starred on HBO series, A Black Lady Sketch Show. In 2022, Bathe was cast as a lead alongside Morena Baccarin in the NBC heist thriller series The Endgame. In 2023, she played the leading role in the thriller film Boy in the Walls directed by Constance Zimmer, and was cast alongside Terry Crews in the CBS comedy pilot JumpStart.

Personal life
In June 2007, Bathe married fellow actor and Stanford alum Sterling K. Brown. They have two sons.