Alan Ritchson

Alan Ritchson (birthname: Alan Michael Ritchson) is most widely known for his portrayal of nomadic hero Jack Reacher on the series, Reacher (2023-present) based on Lee Child’s novels, but has also appeared in over a dozen features, starting with Lionsgate horror release, The Butcher (2006), with Catherine Wreford and Tom Nagel.

Ritchson co-starred with Ally Sheedy, Kate Siegel, Ruby Dee, and Chelsea Handler in writer-director Kyle Schickner’s multi-story film, Steam (2007), followed by another co-starring role in writer-director Christopher L. Miller’s modern-day Western, Rex (2008). Ritchson appeared in the large ensemble of Screen Gems’ widely-panned comedy, Fired Up! (2009), and then earned a small supporting role in his first major studio movie, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland, grossing $865 million for Lionsgate.

Alan Ritchson played support (and a groomsman) in co-writer and director Jeremy Garelick’s commercially successful ($80 million-grossing) Screen Gems rom-com, The Wedding Ringer (2015), starring Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco, Cloris Leachman, Mimi Rogers, and Olivia Thirlby, followed by a major supporting role in the sci-fi comedy, Lazer Team (2016), premiering at Fantastic Fest.

Ritchson co-starred as Thad produced and co-wrote (with show creators Chris Romano and Eric Falconer) Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland (2016), Lionsgate’s big-screen continuation of Spike TV’s series, Blue Mountain State (2010-2011). Ritchson’s first voice and motion-capture role was as Raphael in the Paramount/Nickelodeon sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), with Pete Ploszek, Jeremy Howard, Noel Fisher, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, and Laura Linney, and which earned a poor $245.6 million against a $135 million budget.

Ritchson reunited with Thirlby in the supernatural romance, Above the Shadows (2019), written and directed by Claudia Myers, and co-starring Jim Gaffigan and Fox, followed by Ritchson scoring a co-starring role in the football-themed indie co-written and directed by Greg Coolidge, The Turkey Bowl (2019), with Ryan Hansen and Matt Jones, and released by Lionsgate. Alan Ritchson joined the action ensemble of director-writer Eric Bress’s British horror movie, Ghosts of War (2020), with Brenton Thwaites, Theo Rossi, Skylar Astin, and Billy Zane, and released in virtual theatrical mode by Vertical Entertainment.

Ritchson then made his feature debut as director and co-writer (with Joshua Montcalm) while also co-starring with Jack Kesy and Conor Leslie in the Lionsgate-released action comedy, Dark Web: Cicada 3301 (2021). Ritchson joined his second big-budget franchise project in a supporting role in Fast X (2023), directed by Louis Leterrier and starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, John Cena, Jordana Brewster, Helen Mirren, Brie Larson, Rita Moreno, Jason Momoa, and Charlize Theron, and earning a strong $714.6 million globally.

Alan Ritchson co-starred opposite Hilary Swank in the Christian-themed drama from Lionsgate, Ordinary Angels (2024), with Nancy Travis and Tamala Jones, followed by Ritchson co-starring in another Lionsgate release, Guy Ritchie’s Jerry Bruckheimer-produced historical action spy comedy, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024), with Henry Cavill, Eiza Gonzalez, Til Schweiger, Henry Golding, and Cary Elwes.

Ritchson co-starred with Joe Pantoliano, Morgan Fairchild, Lee Majors, Robert Davi, and Erik Estrada in co-writer/director Mars Callahan’s comedy, Spring Break ’83 (date to be announced), and then Ritchson starred under Timur Bekmambetov’s direction in the revenge drama, Motor City (date to be announced). Ritchson directed and starred in his second collaboration with writer Montcalm, the 1887-set supernatural Western, Bad Seeds of Loving Spring (date to be announced).

Alan Ritchson continued his run of starring roles in the action-comedy, Playdate (date to be announced), co-starring Kevin James, with Sarah Hayward, written by Neil Goldman and directed by Luke Greenfield. Ritchson starred in the sci-fi action movie, War Machine, directed by Patrick Hughes and co-written by Hughes and James Beaufort, and produced by Lionsgate.