---
name: "Ryan O'Connell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ryan-oconnell"
fi1m_id: "ryan-oconnell"
imdb_id: "nm5067086"
tmdb_id: 1513666
wikidata_id: "Q65056294"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "2 September 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-05T04:37:29.932879+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ryan O'Connell

## Identity

Ryan O'Connell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ryan-oconnell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ryan-oconnell
- **IMDb ID:** nm5067086
- **TMDB ID:** 1513666
- **Wikidata ID:** Q65056294
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_O%27Connell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65056294, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5067086/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1513666

Producer. Born 2 September 1986 in Ventura County.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 2 September 1986, Ventura County
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_O%27Connell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65056294, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5067086/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1513666

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Baby-Sitters Club*](https://film.one/tv/the-baby-sitters-club.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ryan O'Connell is an American writer, actor and producer. Born on 2 September 1986 in Ventura County, California, he studied at The New School and began his career as a blogger and editor at Thought Catalog before moving into television writing.

He is known for creating, writing, executive producing and starring as Ryan Hayes in the Netflix series *Special* (2019–2021), adapted from his 2015 memoir *I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves*. O'Connell has also written episodes of *Awkward.* (2014–2016), *Will & Grace* (2017–2018), *The Baby-Sitters Club* (2021) and *Queer as Folk* (2022), in which he also appeared as Julian Beaumont.

He has received Emmy nominations and a GLAAD Award, and has published a second book, the novel *Just by Looking at Him* (2022).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Baby-Sitters Club* (2020), Fi1m 85, Writer, Supervising Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-baby-sitters-club.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Queer as Folk* (2022), series, as Julian · Executive Producer, Writer
- *The Normal Heart* (2021), Actor
- *The Baby-Sitters Club* (2020), series, Supervising Producer, Writer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-baby-sitters-club.md)
- *Special* (2019), series, as Ryan Hayes · Executive Producer, Book, Writer, Creator
- *Will & Grace* (2017), series, Executive Story Editor
- *Awkward.* (2011), series, Story, Writer
- *I Am Not Your Mother*, Writer

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/ryan-oconnell