Isabel Ryan is an American actress born in Dallas, Texas. She moved to New York City in 2008 to study philosophy, film and photography at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Upon graduating, and after some acting classes at the Prestigious TISCH School of the arts, she focused her passions on acting and filmmaking. She’s directed both narrative and experimental short films and has written an independent feature length screenplay set in hometown, in which she will play the lead character, scheduled to be shot in 2015.