Ryan Simpkins

Personal context

Summary

Ryan Simpkins is an actor known for early roles in Sherrybaby, A Single Man, and Revolutionary Road, as well as the Fear Street trilogy and Please Baby Please. Their work spans drama, comedy, and horror; Simpkins has described horror as a way to represent underrepresented people and explore deeper themes. In an interview, they said their own filmmaking aims to challenge stories that misrepresent women and gender, and called for more women, queer people, and people of color to have opportunities to greenlight projects. Simpkins has publicly identified as queer and non-binary; no public record of party campaigning or broader activist affiliations is established.