Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV News
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsEmmysSundance Film FestivalBest Of 2023STARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
  • All
  • Titles
  • TV Episodes
  • Celebs
  • Companies
  • Keywords
  • Advanced Search
Watchlist
Sign In
Sign In
New Customer? Create account
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
  • Biography
  • Awards
  • Trivia
  • FAQ
IMDbPro

Riley Smith(I)

  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Producer
IMDbProStarmeterTop 5,000400
Riley Smith
Watch Season 3 Trailer
Play trailer0:29
Nancy Drew (2019–2023)
40 Videos
67 Photos
Riley Smith is an immensely talented actor whose body of work comes to life in diverse roles across television and film. With a promising new series, Riley's star is quickly on the rise.

Riley Smith has most recently been cast to co-star in the CW's up and coming hit Nancy Drew. The series is set the summer following Nancy Drew's high school graduation, where she and several teens throughout the town are suspects of murder. The victim? Smith's characters, Ryan Hudson's, socialite wife. Nancy Drew can be seen following Riverdale on the CW starting in October of 2019.

Before landing the role of Ryan Hudson, Smith had wrapped up his role of Levi Scott in Fox series Proven Innocent, and prior to that was Dr. Will Grant on the CW series Life Sentence.

Smith was the lead in the CW series Frequency, which premiered October 2016. In this re imagining of the 2000 New Line film, Peyton List plays a female police detective in 2016 who discovers that she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father (Smith), also a detective, but who died in 1996. They forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case. However, unintended consequences of the butterfly effect wreak havoc in the present day.

In 2015, Smith was seen in a strong arc in Season 4 of the popular ABC musical series Nashville. Playing Markus Keen, an artist signed to Rayna's Highway 65 label, Smith merged his love for music and acting, recording singles, such as "In the Name of Your Love" and "I Want To (Do Everything For You," for the Nashville soundtrack. Also in 2015, Smith scored a recurring role as Rachel McAdam's boyfriend, Sheriff's deputy Steve Mercier, on HBO's True Detective, the second installment in the crime franchise. This role followed his previous stint on the pay cable network as a vampire on the seventh and final season of HBO's True Blood. Smith played Keith, a rugged, rock 'n' roll vampire with a romantic side and story line opposite Arlene, played by Carrie Preston.

Previously, Smith had recurring roles in the Emmy-nominated CBS series Joan of Arcadia, the highly acclaimed Fox show 24, the WB series Summerland, and Judd Apatow's master creation for NBC Freaks and Geeks. He was a main character in the Fox show Drive and appeared in seven episodes of the fifth season of CW's 90210 as Riley Wallace, a paraplegic opposite Shenae Grimes, and Tristan Wilds. He can also be seen in television movies including Disney Channel's Motocrossed and Nicholas Sparks' Deliverance Creek.

Smith's other credits were in films as diverse as Radio (Ed Harris, Cuba Gooding Jr.), Eight-Legged Freaks, Not Another Teen Movie, New York Minute, as well as Gallowwalkers (Wesley Snipes), Weapons, the Sundance Grand Jury Nominee, and Christmas in Conway (Andy Garcia, Mary-Louis Parker). Over the past twenty years since Smith has called Los Angeles home, he has managed to complete more than seventy-five projects: fourteen pilots, nine series, and dozens of guest star roles.

In his free time, Smith is also a music recording artist and writer. In 2016, he released his first self titled solo EP, recorded in Nashville. The music video for the first single I'm on Fire went to number one on CMT's Taste of Country Countdown. Smith currently has 6 original songs placed on Television shows and film. Smith is set to release a new record in 2018.

Born and raised on his families' Quarter Horse Ranch outside of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Smith remains involved with his hometown supporting the Eastern Iowa Arts Academy. This non-profit after school arts organization, created for K-12th grade students, offers classes in art, music, drama, dance, cultural arts, and creative writing.
BornApril 12, 1978
  • More at IMDbProContact info & Agent info
  • BornApril 12, 1978
    IMDbProStarmeterTop 5,000400
  • IMDbProContact info & Agent info
    • Awards
      • 1 win

    Photos67

    Riley Smith in Ghost Whisperer (2005)
    Mekhi Phifer and Riley Smith in Frequency (2016)
    Mekhi Phifer and Riley Smith in Frequency (2016)
    Riley Smith in Frequency (2016)
    Riley Smith in Frequency (2016)
    Riley Smith and Amber Friendly in Frequency (2016)
    Riley Smith in Frequency (2016)
    Peyton List and Riley Smith in Frequency (2016)
    Peyton List and Riley Smith in Frequency (2016)
    Riley Smith in Frequency (2016)
    Riley Smith in Frequency (2016)
    Riley Smith in Frequency (2016)

    Known for:

    David Arquette and Kari Wuhrer in Arac Attack, les monstres à huit pattes (2002)
    Arac Attack, les monstres à huit pattes
    5.5
    • Randy
    • 2002
    Jaime Pressly, Chris Evans, Chyler Leigh, Eric Christian Olsen, and Cerina Vincent in Sex Academy (2001)
    Sex Academy
    5.8
    • Les
    • 2001
    Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ed Harris in Radio (2003)
    Radio
    6.9
    • Johnny
    • 2003
    Wesley Snipes in Gallow Walkers (2012)
    Gallow Walkers
    3.6
    • Fabulos
    • 2012

    Credits

    Edit
    IMDbPro

    Actor

    • Riley Smith, Leah Lewis, Tunji Kasim, Alex Saxon, Maddison Jaizani, and Kennedy McMann in Nancy Drew (2019)
      Nancy Drew
      6.7
      TV Series
      • Ryan Hudson
      • 2019–2023
    • Station 19 (2018)
      Station 19
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Captain Farris
      • 2023
    • Ed Harris, Riley Smith, Martina Gusmán, Terrence Martin, and Dominique Braun in Get Away If You Can (2022)
      Get Away If You Can
      3.1
      • Graham
      • 2022
    • Kelsey Grammer, Russell Hornsby, and Rachelle Lefevre in Proven Innocent (2019)
      Proven Innocent
      6.5
      TV Series
      • Levi Scott
      • 2019
    • Lucy Hale in Life Sentence (2018)
      Life Sentence
      6.5
      TV Series
      • Dr. Will Grant
      • 2018
    • Riley Smith in The Life of Ricky (2017)
      The Life of Ricky
      Short
      • Ricky Jones
      • 2017
    • Peyton List and Riley Smith in Frequency (2016)
      Frequency
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Frank Sullivan
      • 2016–2017
    • Jim Belushi, Riley Smith, Alfonso Herrera, Nathalie Kelley, Lindsey Gort, and Bryana Salaz in Urban Cowboy (2016)
      Urban Cowboy
      6.5
      TV Movie
      • Wes
      • 2016
    • Interior Night (2016)
      Interior Night
      7.7
      • Eddie Banks
      • 2016
    • Bleed (2016)
      Bleed
      3.5
      • Eric
      • 2016
    • Patricia Arquette, Ted Danson, James Van Der Beek, Shad Moss, Hayley Kiyoko, and Charley Koontz in Les experts: Cyber (2015)
      Les experts: Cyber
      5.5
      TV Series
      • Keith Walker
      • 2016
    • Studio City
      5.8
      TV Movie
      • Jax
      • 2015
    • Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere in Nashville (2012)
      Nashville
      7.7
      TV Series
      • Markus Keen
      • 2015
    • The HOA (2015)
      The HOA
      6.7
      TV Movie
      • Shawn
      • 2015
    • Diogo Morgado in The Messengers (2015)
      The Messengers
      6.3
      TV Series
      • Mark Plowman
      • 2015

    Writer

    • Riley Smith in The Life of Ricky (2017)
      The Life of Ricky
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2017

    Producer

    • Riley Smith in The Life of Ricky (2017)
      The Life of Ricky
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2017

    Videos40

    Bleed
    Clip 1:15
    Bleed
    Bleed
    Clip 1:42
    Bleed
    Bleed
    Interview 0:25
    Bleed
    Trailer
    Trailer 1:38
    Trailer
    Season 3 Trailer
    Trailer 0:29
    Season 3 Trailer
    New York Minute
    Trailer 2:15
    New York Minute
    New York Minute
    Trailer 2:14
    New York Minute
    Frequency Trailer
    Trailer 4:25
    Frequency Trailer
    U.S. Trailer
    Trailer 1:29
    U.S. Trailer
    Christmas in Conway: Made for TV Movie
    Trailer 0:33
    Christmas in Conway: Made for TV Movie
    Bleed
    Trailer 2:02
    Bleed
    Gallowwalkers
    Trailer 1:31
    Gallowwalkers

    Personal details

    Edit
    • Height
      • 1.80 m
    • Born
      • April 12, 1978
      • Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
    • Parents
        Russ Smith
    • Publicity listings
      • 2 Articles
      • 1 Pictorial

    Did you know

    Edit
    • Trivia
      He was Ashton Kutcher's roommate in 1997 in New York City at the IMTA convention after knowing each other in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, their hometown. Josh Duhamel also attended the same year.
    • Quotes
      I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.

    FAQ9

    Powered by Alexa
    • How old is Riley Smith?
    • When was Riley Smith born?
    • Where was Riley Smith born?

    Related news

    Contribute to this page

    Suggest an edit or add missing content
    • Learn more about contributing
    Edit page

    More to explore

    Production art
    List
    January Picks: All the Best Movies and Shows
    See our picks
    Production art
    List
    The Most Anticipated Movies of 2024
    See the list

    Add demo reel with IMDbPro

    Demo reel thumbnail
    Make your IMDb page stand out by adding a demo reel
    Upload your demo reel

    Add demo reel with IMDbPro

    Make your IMDb page stand out by adding a demo reel
    Upload your demo reel
    Demo reel thumbnail

    How much have you seen?

    Keep track of how much of Riley Smith’s work you have seen. Go to your list.
    Production art
    List
    James' 5 Picks for January
    See the full list

    Recently viewed

    Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
    Get the IMDb App
    Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
    • Get the IMDb App
    • Help
    • Site Index
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • IMDb Developer
    • Press Room
    • Advertising
    • Jobs
    • Conditions of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, an Amazon company

    © 1990-2024 by IMDb.com, Inc.