Biography
Ryan Jamaal Swain an actor and dancer from the United States who gained notoriety for playing the gay dancer Damon Richards-Evangelista in the FX series Pose.
Age
He is 30 years old as of 13 March 2024.He was born in 1994 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. His real name is Ryan Jamaal Swain.
Family – Education
He was raised in Birmingham, Alabama, and is the oldest of four children. At a young age, Swain demonstrated a fondness for the arts, in contrast to his family relatives who gravitated towards the healthcare industry. At the age of four, he started taking tap dance classes. Later, he added hip-hop, jazz, modern, and ballet to his repertory. Swain performed with Birmingham Children’s Theatre, Red Mountain Theatre Company, Alabama Ballet, Alabama Dance Academy, and Virginia Samford Theatre during his early years.
He would later study at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, United Kingdom, and receive his B.F.A. from Howard University in Washington, D.C. After graduating, Swain moved to New York City. Because of his sexual orientation, Swain’s stepfather mistreated him both physically and psychologically when he was a child. Following the shooting death of his sister, Raven Lynette Swain, in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 28, 2020, Swain decided to leave Pose, and his character was canceled following the first episode of the third season.
Spouse
Swain considers herself queer.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of of $5 million.
Pose
In the American drama television series Pose, he played the role of brilliant dancer Damon Richards-Evangelista, who becomes the first member of the House of Evangelista despite being homeless.
The character was canceled from the program during the launch of season three because of Swain’s sister’s death in Birmingham, Alabama, their hometown. It was reported that Damon moved in with his cousin in South Carolina and fell back into alcoholism. He was revealed to be teaching dancing in Chicago in the series conclusion.
Following a generally positive reaction, the first season was nominated for multiple awards, including the Golden Globes for Best Television Series – Drama and Best Actor – Television Series Drama for Billy Porter. As the first out homosexual Black male to be nominated for and win in an Emmy lead acting category, Porter won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2019. At the same ceremony, the series received a nomination for Outstanding Drama Series.
Career
While going to Howard College, Lover showed up in creations, for example, Anything Goes. He has likewise acted in plays including Six Levels of Partition and Considerations of a Hued Man, as well as featuring in a few Off-Broadway creations, for example, Kill Move Heaven at the Public Dark Venue in New York. Regardless of his little screen debut, Lover actually rewards the theater local area. In 2018, it was accounted for that he facilitated an extemporaneous acting studio at the Forma Expressions + Wellbeing studio in Birmingham.
In 2017, Lover was given a role as Damon Richards in Ryan Murphy’s FX TV series Posture. The series debuted on June 3, 2018, and pulled in basic recognition. The principal season bragged the biggest cast transsexual entertainers ever for a prearranged network series, with more than 50 transsexual characters. On July 12, 2018, it was declared that the series had been reestablished briefly season, which was set to debut at some point in 2019.
Because of his Southern foundation, Lover had never known about or been presented to the ball culture portrayed in Posture. Lover put together his exhibition with respect to his survey of the 1990 narrative Paris is Consuming during his school years. He likewise drew upon his experience of moving to New York City with just “50 bucks in his pocket” to seek after his fantasies. Lover’s personality returned for the main episode of the third and last season, however was worked out for the final part of the episode, which was shot during Lover’s exit from the series because of the demise of Lover’s genuine sister.
Lover’s initial significant introduction to composing was in 2014 when he composed and featured in A Negro Essayist, a small time show about the existence of American essayist Langston Hughes. He reported plans to compose a youngster fiction book about a Southern teen.