Ryan Lee Stiles (born April 22 1959) is a Canadian-American actor and improvisational comedian. He was born in Seattle, Washington, United States, the youngest of five children.
Early life and career
When Stiles was ten, his
Canadian-born parents moved the family to
Richmond, British Columbia. At the age of seventeen, he dropped out of
high school to pursue a career in
comedy, working in his father's
fish-
processing plant to
earn a living while doing
stand-up in
Vancouver-area
nightclubs. In
1986, Stiles
auditioned for and got a stint with
Toronto's renowned
Second City comedy ensemble. By
1990, he had gained the attention of the
producers of the
British improvisational comedy show,
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Stiles was a regular on the show until
1998, and the show's short production season allowed him to make numerous
television and
motion picture appearances in the
United States as well.
Stiles work with Drew Carey
In
1995, Stiles was
tapped by American
comic Drew Carey to be a regular on his
sitcom,
The Drew Carey Show, in which he played Drew's smart but
underachieving best friend, Lewis Kiniski. Stiles and Carey continued work on the comedy even as they brought
Whose Line Is It Anyway? to American television, with Carey as the new host. Both men appeared weekly on the program and were its
executive producers. Ryan Stiles did several impressions for the program, most notably:
Carol Channing and
John Wayne.
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