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Ryan Ridley (born 1975 or 1976) is a screenwriter and voice actor. Ridley was a writer for the animated science fiction sitcom Rick and Morty for its first three seasons and has continued to provide voices for multiple characters through its seventh season. He also wrote the 2023 horror comedy film Renfield.

Early life
Ridley grew up in Metro Detroit and attended Wylie E. Groves High School in Beverly Hills, Michigan. His father Mark is the owner of Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle, and his brother Adam is a film director and producer. He is Jewish.

Career
In 2000, Ridley moved to Chicago and pursued a career in stand-up comedy for "about five years". He later moved again to Los Angeles to be closer to Channel 101, a monthly short film festival created by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab. Ridley's submissions to Channel 101 impressed Harmon, and he went on to work as a writer on Harmon's TV series Acceptable.TV and Community.

In 2013, Ridley was a member of the initial writing team for the animated science fiction sitcom Rick and Morty. In 2017, he began writing for the supernatural sitcom Ghosted, which ran for one season. In a 2018 interview with The Detroit Cast, Ridley said that he was "certainly not" working on the fourth season of Rick and Morty; he ultimately did not write any episodes that season, with High Times Tim Brinkhof saying he was focusing on other projects.

He collaborated with Robert Kirkman to write the horror comedy film Renfield (2023). Kirkman wrote the initial treatment for the film and credits Ridley with "expand[ing] on everything that [Kirkman] had set up" when writing the screenplay.