Tyson Ritter

Tyson Jay Ritter (born April 24, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and model. He is best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, pianist, and songwriter of the multi-platinum selling American alternative rock band the All-American Rejects. As an actor, Ritter appeared as Dane on Amazon Video's Betas, recurred as rock musician Oliver Rome on NBC's Parenthood, and has had supporting roles in films, including The House Bunny (2008) and Miss You Already (2015). In 2018, Ritter played recurring characters on two television series on AMC, Preacher and Lodge 49. Ritter joined the main cast of Preacher for its final season in 2019.

Tyson Ritter
Ritter performing in December 2006
Background information
Birth nameTyson Jay Ritter
Born (1984-04-24) April 24, 1984
Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • musician
  • actor
  • model
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • bass guitar
  • piano
  • keyboards
  • guitar
  • vibraphone
  • recorder
  • pedal steel
  • marxophone
Years active1997–present
Labels
Associated actsThe All-American Rejects

Early life
External image
Tyson Ritter and his mother

Ritter was born on April 24, 1984 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, to Tracy Jean Rains (née Lyons; born to Edwina Janora Lyons Sherman and Tony Eugene Lyons)[1] and Tim Jay Ritter (born to Peggy Earline Ritter Sharpton and Steve Delano Ritter). His mother is an employee at Stillwater Public Schools. He has an older brother, Dr. Zack S. Ritter, DDS, who is an endodontist, and a younger sister, Bailey Ritter. He and his siblings graduated from Stillwater High School.[2]

Career

Ritter met his bandmates while he was at a party in high school. After Jesse Tabish quit the band, and with the additions of Mike Kennerty and Chris Gaylor, the All-American Rejects were picked up by Doghouse Records, and later DreamWorks Records, and finally signed with the major label Interscope Records. In early 2018, the band left Interscope. As of July 2019, they are signed to Epitaph Records.[3] The All-American Rejects have released four albums to date, and have sold over 10 million albums worldwide and 4 million singles.

Ritter has appeared in television series and films such as House (2007), The House Bunny (2008), Betas (2013–14), and Parenthood (2013–15).[4][5] On November 5, 2013, Ritter released the song "Air" as a solo song to help "ride between the Rejects' next record", which was featured on Parenthood.[6]

Shortly after the release of "Air" Tyson wrote the song "Collide" which was also featured on Parenthood. The song was never released on the market but is still available on sites like YouTube.[7]

Ritter's next projects included a role in the John Cusack film Love and Mercy (2014). He had also been cast in the lead role of singer Gregg Allman in the biopic Midnight Rider, directed by Randall Miller, but the film was halted in production, and ultimately cancelled, due to the death of camera assistant Sarah Jones.[8] In 2015, he had a supporting role in the comedy-drama film Miss You Already, which starred Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore.

Personal life

Ritter and actress Elena Satine were engaged in April 2013 and married on New Year's Eve that year.[9][10]

He has been best friends with bandmate Nick Wheeler ever since they met in high school.

Ritter is an investor in various tech companies including Hooch App.[11]

Equipment

Ritter likes to use Fender bass guitars. He had previously used Epiphone Flying V or Epiphone Explorer basses during the era of The All-American Rejects, until he started to favor a Fender Precision Bass and started using them more often in his songs. Ritter was also seen using a Gibson Thunderbird bass on their early tours for Move Along and also with a rare Jackson Guitars V Bass. He then later used Fender Jaguar Bass guitars for later tours before switching back to Fender Precision Basses.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2008 The House Bunny Colby
2014 Love & Mercy Hipster #1
2015 The Pinhole Affect Tyson Ritter Short film
2015 Miss You Already Ace
2016 The Sweet Life Marlon
2017 Ray Meets Helen Woody
2018 Peppermint Sam
2018 Gloria Bell Neighbor
2018 Desolate Ned Stone

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2003 Feable Weiner Jock Music Video - San Deem us Ready
2007 House Himself Episode: "Fetal Position"
2012 90210 Himself Episode: "Trust, Truth and Traffic"
2013–14 Betas Dane 5 episodes
2013–15 Parenthood Oliver Rome 10 episodes
2015 Wicked City Bucket 2 episodes
2017–19 Preacher Jesus Christ/Humperdoo 15 episodes
2018 Lodge 49 Avery 5 episodes
gollark: That's an orthogonal issue, mostly.
gollark: I like "respect" as "recognizing people as fellow humans who you should maintain some basic standard of niceness with". And "respect" as "admiring people based on achievements". And "respect" as "acknowledge people's opinions on things reasonably" and such. I do *not* like "respect" as "subservience"/"obedience" - the "respect for authority" sense. These are quite hard to define nicely and just get lumped into one overloaded word.
gollark: > I don't really like the term of "respect", because people use it to mean so many different often mutually exclusive things based on convenience then equivocate them in weird ways;
gollark: See, I consider this somewhat, well, worrying, given what I said about "respect" for authority figures being pretty close to "subservience" a lot.
gollark: "i will be respected here." implies EVERYONE, not just staff.

References
  1. "Stillwater's rockin' mum tours with All American Rejects". STW News Press.
  2. Keys, Elizabeth (July 21, 2013). "Stillwater's rockin' mum". Stillwater NewsPress. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
  3. "Single Post | the Pop Punk Dad | News | Interviews & Features".
  4. "Tyson Ritter On 'Parenthood' Season 5: All-American Rejects' Frontman Books Multi-Episode Arc (Exclusive)". The Huffington Post. August 2, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
  5. Faylene, Rachel (October 9, 2013). "Tyson Ritter Talks New Role on 'Parenthood,' Growing Up & What Comes Next". Variance Magazine. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
  6. McDonnell, Brandy (November 5, 2013). "Video: Tyson Ritter releases new single "Air," to be featured on NBC's "Parenthood" Thursday". The Oklahoman. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
  7. Neva Margetić (October 5, 2014), Tyson Ritter - Collide, retrieved April 20, 2016
  8. McNary, Dave (December 13, 2013). "Gregg Allman Biopic Casts Tyson Ritter as Lead Role". Variety. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  9. Silverman, Stephen M. (April 5, 2013). "Tyson Ritter Engaged to Elena Satine". People. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
  10. Blumm, K.C.; Jordan, Julie (January 1, 2014). "Tyson Ritter and Elena Satine Are Married". People. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  11. "Why you need to know about Hooch and how they attracted investment from celebrities". Huffington Post. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
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