Ryan Lavery
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| All My Children character | |||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Cameron Mathison | ||||||||||
| Duration | 1998–2011 | ||||||||||
| First appearance | January 12, 1998 | ||||||||||
| Last appearance | September 23, 2011 | ||||||||||
| Created by | Megan McTavish | ||||||||||
| Introduced by | Francesca James | ||||||||||
| Classification | Former, regular | ||||||||||
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| Other names | John Ryan Curry | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Co-Founder of the Myrtle Fargate Foundation (2011–) Co-Owner and CEO of Cambias Industries (2011–) Owner of The Seasons Casinos (2010–) Con-artist |
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| Residence | Ryan's Penthouse (450 Old Cedar Lane) Pine Valley, Pennsylvania |
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| Parents | Patrick Lavery Gail Curry Lavery |
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| Siblings | Braden Lavery Jonathan Lavery Erin Lavery |
| Spouse | Gillian Andrassy (1998–99, 2001) Greenlee Smythe (2004–07, 2011–) Annie Lavery (2007–09) |
| Children | Emma Lavery Spike Lavery Sara Lavery |
| Other relatives | Duke Lavery |
Ryan Lavery is a fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children, as portrayed by Cameron Mathison from 1998 to 2002 and from 2003 to 2011. He has a daughter with ex-wife Annie Lavery, a son with Kendall Hart, a deceased daughter with Madison North, and is married to Kendall's best friend and sometimes enemy Greenlee Smythe.
In January 1998, Cameron Mathison debuted on All My Children as con man Ryan Lavery. He remained with the series until 2002 when the actor decided to leave the series. In 2003, Mathison returned. At the time, the actor was already considering rejoining the show, but news of Megan McTavish’s return as head writer convinced him. “I worked really well with [McTavish] and she obviously knows the character – she created him!” Mathison said.
In 2009, All My Children’s production moved from New York to Los Angeles. Mathison debated whether or not to move his family to California in order to continue working on the show. “At ABC and All My Children, I’m a real family member,” he said. “But at the same time, I didn’t want to feel like, ‘Without a question, I have to drag myself across the country for this show.” After planning out how they could viably stay in New York without All My Children, he and his wife, Vanessa, decided to move with the show. In 2011, ABC Daytime President Brian Frons announced the cancellation of All My Children and One Life to Live. The production company Prospect Park planned to pick up the soap operas and air them online. Mathison and Lindsay Hartley (Dr. Cara Castillo) were the first actors from the show to join the new production. In November 2011, Prospect Park called off plans to produce the soap operas online.
Ryan Lavery arrives in Pine Valley in January 1998 as a con man seeking riches. After getting hired at WRCW, he begins a scheme involving kickback funds. When station manager Liza Colby discovers this, she threatens Ryan with jail time. She says that she will send him to jail unless he marries Gillian Andrassy, who is about to be wed to her nephew, Scott. Ryan and Gillian go through many ups and downs, but eventually fall deeply in love. Their romance ends in tragedy, however, when a hit man takes Gillian's life while trying to kill Anna Devane.
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