Ricky is and award winning actor for playing the character "Steve" in the T.V. pilot "Some Kind of Wonderful." He is best known for the T.V series "BoysTown," that he created for cable network OUTtv in Canada. He wrote, directed and played a lead character for two seasons. He was born in the small southern town of Winder, Georgia on May
15th. Doing local theatre productions since he was a kid he got his first real break when he was
15 when he was asked to audition for "Annie Get Your Gun" playing 'lil
Jake, Annie's brother. He won the audience's over with great reviews to
follow. Ricky continued acting in various productions throughout his
career and finally decided to make the move to California where he was
referred to a talent agent by a well known casting director and
appeared in several films. Ricky then decided to start his own
entertainment company where he would write/produce/direct and act in
some of his own productions.
He lost both his father and sister in less than a year of each other while filming Heels, his father's birthday was on May 19th, four days after his and his sister was killed May 20th.
His parents divorced when he was 4 years old. His father raised all four kids and never remarried.
Starting writing songs in his 20's and also co-produced the BoysTown Soundtrack.
Auditioned for the Broadway production of Rent to replace Joey Fatone of Nsync.