Ryan Lavery
Actor History
Cameron Mathison (January 12th, 1998 to July 3rd, 2002; July 23rd, 2003 to Present)
Other Names
Ryan Aloysius Lavery (full name; revealed January 2004)
Birth name was once stated to be John Ryan Curry (has since been changed)
Lifeline
Birthday is January 18, 1974
Occupation
Working for Cambias Enterprises
Former CEO of Cambias Enterprises
Former advertising Salesman at WRCW (Third Time; Quit Twice)
Former owner of Fidelty, a yacht. (Possibly being renamed to Princess)
Founder/Former CEO of e-commerce venture, "IncredibleDreams.com"
Former promoter and bartender for Sounds of Salsa.
Resides At
The Penthouse
The Pine Cone
Formerly a loft apartment
Formerly Room 616, The Valley Inn
Formerly Room 17 at the Pine Cone Motel
Formerly aboard Fidelity, a yacht.
Formerly at a turret on the Wildwind estate
Formerly at 1421 Plumtree Road #15E
Formerly at the Fargate Boarding House
Formerly in a residence above a dry cleaner in Des Moines, Iowa
Marital Status
Married/(Annie McDermott [Engaged: March 30th, 2007; Married: May 22nd, 2007]
Past Marriages
Gillian Andrassy (divorced; deceased)
Gillian Andrassy (married 9 April 2001; dissolved by her death)
Greenlee Smythe duPres (married 20 May 2004; divorced 21 May 2007)
Annie McDermott (2007; invalid)
Relatives
Patrick Lavery (father; deceased)
Gail Curry (mother; deceased; died 26 September 2001)
Braden Lavery (brother; deceased; died 2005)
Jonathan Lavery (brother)
Erin Lavery (sister; deceased)
In 2001, it was stated that Ryan and Braden were Gail's only two children and they had taken her maiden name of Lavery rather than Patrick's name. Ryan was also, for a time, believed to be Chris Stamp's child.
Children
Unnamed Child (miscarriage; with Liza)
Unnamed Child (miscarriage; with Greenlee)
Emma McDermott (daughter; with Annie) (conceived via artificial insemination)
Spike Lavery (son; with Kendall; born 2006) (conceived via artificial insemination)
Flings & Affairs
Kelsey Jefferson (A "pretend" affair to make Scott Chandler jealous)
Hayley Vaughan
Greenlee Smythe
Gillian Andrassy Martin
Rosette
Opal Cortlandt (Kissed)
Liza Colby [Aug 13th, 2001]
Mia Saunders (Lovers)
Kendall Hart (Lovers)
Kendall Hart (Engaged: Jan 27th, 2004)
Julia Santos (flirtation)
Crimes Committed
Numerous cons; Never convicted
Set up a "kick-back" scam to bilk WRCW advertisers out of money.
Arrested and plead guilty to raping Kit Fisher; Charges dropped.
Ran from the law
Adultery (with Gillian Andrassy Martin)
Stole a porcelain egg from Chandler Mansion; Sold it to buy a motorcycle.
Blackmail; Threatened JR after he'd hit Ryan's motorcycle with his car.
Tied up Greenlee to prevent her from going to see Juan Pablo [2004]
Lied to the SEC, saying that her marriage to Ryan was out of love and not a business deal [Jun 7th, 2004]
Shot Jonathan Lavery in the stomach in self-defense. [Apr 12th, 2005]
Strangled David Hayward until he blacked out. [Jun 2005]
Took part in an illegal "fight club." [Jul 2005]
Staged his own death by plunging a motorcycle off of a cliff and into the ocean. [Jul 18th, 2005]
Unintentional bigamy. (Married Annie while still wed to Greenlee.) [2007]
Maladies and Hospitalizations
Shot in the chest by Jonathan Lavery. [2004]
Injured in a mine explosion. [Apr 13th, 2005]
Shot in the head by Hannah Nichols [Jan 2008]
Miscellaneous
Blood type is AB+ (winter 2001).
Blood type is Rh - (revealed 28 November 2005).
Brief Character History
Ryan made has debut in Pine Valley Hospital's Emergency Room, on the night of the Crystal Ball at Wildwind. Nurse Gloria Marsh was rendering aid to victims of a bus crash, and Ryan claimed to be a passenger who had suffered whiplash. Gloria, a former con artist herself, saw right through him (that he hadn't even been ON the bus) and warned him to drop the act or else. Dimitri was admitted that night, injured after being trapped under a tree. He had suffered massive blood loss, and there was a blood shortage of his type. Gloria realized that Ryan was a match and threatened to turn him into the authorities if he didn't "donate" his blood. He did, and this helped save Dimitri's life.
With elaborate claims and figures, he convinced Liza Colby to give him a chance to increase WRCW's advertising profits. After witnessing Kelsey's pathetic attempt at flirtation with Scott at WRCW, he volunteered to coach her in the love game. Ryan also went along with Kelsey's scheme to make Scott jealous by pretending to be her new love interest, to help her get Scott away from Princess Gillian Andrassy. Ryan was attracted to Gillian from the start, and what started as his helping Kelsey land Scott turned into Ryan trying to help himself to a piece of Gillian. It was just fun and games, though, and he and Gillian both enjoyed the double entendres and heavy flirtation which ensued.
When Ryan solicited kickback money from Erica Kane for enchantment advertising, she went along with him just long enough to get the evidence to turn him in. When he realized the threat, he tried to seduce her into silence. Off course she laughed at this, so he tried to accuse her with sexual harassment. Erica was not intimidated, and she went to Liza with a list of other victimized accounts, accusing her and the station of unethical practices, and threatening to go to the FCC. Liza finally convinced Erica that Ryan acted alone, that she would make recompense and take care of Ryan Lavery. When confronted, at first Ryan tried to lie about, then to minimize his crimes. Liza was deciding exactly what to do to him when she found out that Scott Chandler was about to marry Gillian in order to save her from being deported. She decided that Ryan and Gillian deserved each other, and blackmailed Ryan into either marrying Gillian or going to prison for is crimes. Liza reminded him that marrying a beautiful, rich princess was not exactly torture. However, Liza left out the little fact that Gillian was now flat broke. Liza concocted a scheme, and on the wedding day 'proved' to gold digging Gillian that Ryan, truth be told, was really the heir to billions - much richer than Scott. As Gillian and Scott were in the middle of taking their vows, Ryan charged down the aisle, declared his love, and literally swooped out the bride. He convinced her that he loved her, gave her a huge ring (cubic zirconia), and she agreed to marry him instead of Scott (To all the guests' relief [and Scott's).
Ryan and Gillian had a few hot days of marital bliss before Immigration and their financial facts came out. Both were shocked and enraged. Gillian overheard Ryan arguing with Liza about his being tricked into marrying a woman with no money who meant nothing to him. She wanted to end the marriage, but was convinced by Ryan, her grandmother, Dimitri and Edmund that the best thing for both of them would be to remain at Wildwind and make the best of things for the year-period that Immigration required to prove the marriage was valid. Otherwise, both of them would suffer legal consequences.
Both of the young newlyweds started to fall for the other, keeping their feelings hidden as neither of them thought the other cared. Ryan openly flirted with Hayley, angering Mateo and Gillian. Hayley and Ryan became good friends, and she and Eugenia convinced Ryan to profess his love to Gillian. Ryan came close to telling her a number of times, but was unable to actually use the word 'love'.
A frustrated Gillian flirted with slimy Dr. Hayward, and eventually ended up in bed with him. Ryan, ready to express his feelings to his wife, discovered them the next morning. Devastated, he ended up at a sleazy bar on Halloween and got tanked. He came on to and dirty danced with Pine Valley newcomer Kit Fisher. Soon after, she accused him of rape. The town was split over who was telling the truth, especially when it came out that Kit had previously falsely cried rape. Dimitri, Gillian, Erica, Tad, and Hayley believed Ryan's innocence, while Edmond and Jack stood adamantly behind Kit (who was revealed to be Jackson's supposedly dead baby sister).
Ryan hid out when a DNA test matched him and the rapist at 80%. Hayley and Gillian devised a plan to get Ryan and his wife out of town, but Hayley was jailed for refusing to give up Ryan's whereabouts. Gillian, desperate for the money that Hayley was supposed to leave for her, swallowed her pride and went to David Hayward for money. David agreed, as long as Gillian would sleep with him. She did, and David followed her and led the police to the Laverys' hideout, as well as cruelly telling Ryan how Gillian got the money. An extremely sick Ryan was jailed. He was surprised when his brother Braden came to visit him, and they reminisced about growing up with their abusive, alcoholic father. Ryan was horrified when something Braden said ('Score one for the kid') made him realize that his brother had committed the rape, and confessed to the crime, feeling he owed Braden for saving him from his father's wrath. Tad and Dixie, suspecting Braden, found the connection between the Lavery brothers and cleared Ryan's name.
The lies and unspoken feelings between Ryan and Gillian began to take their toll, and Hayley's defense of him and their shared childhood created a strong bond between her and Ryan. Ryan eventually filed for divorce from Gillian, and she reluctantly signed them. Ryan began working at Hayley and Mateo's new nightclub, Holidays, and Hayley and Ryan continued to get closer when Mateo's attention was taken by his first wife and newfound son, Max. Ryan continued to be there for Hayley as she came closer to losing her sobriety, and they kissed on the beach on the Fourth of July. Gillian spied the kiss, and eventually Mateo found out. Mat and Ryan became fast enemies, and Ryan was fired from the nightclub and rehired at WRCW by Liza.
Ryan would once again leave WRCW after starting his own Internet startup company, IncredibleDreams.com, an Internet site that helps fulfill users' dreams and fantasies. Ryan and Gillian would also find their way back to each other --- but that road was not as smooth.
Gillian and Ryan were involved in a car accident after Gillian learned that Jake was not Colby's biological father. As a result of her injuries, Gillian was left unable to speak. Jake stood by her side and helped nurse her back to health. As a result, Gillian was unable to tell Jake the truth that she'd learned. Gillian and Jake were later married, but when Jake learned the truth about Colby --- and that Gillian knew the truth and kept it from him --- he went on a rampage. Jake left Pine Valley and during this time Gillian and Ryan found their way back to each other. Gillian anxiously awaited Jake's return to Pine Valley so that she could tell him that she wanted a divorce. What she did not count on was Jake being injured while trying to rescue dozens of orphans in war-torn Chechnya. Gillian didn't want to hit Jake up for a divorce while he wasn't in tip-top shape… and Ryan slowly started to drift away as Gillian devoted most of her time to Jake. Finally, in October 2000, Ryan told Gillian that their relationship was over.
On February 23rd, 2001, Ryan and Gillian were engaged and there were plans to have an elaborate wedding in Hungary. However, money problems forced the couple to consider eloping at Town Hall. Dimitri caught wind of their plans and threw a wedding to remember for the couple
Married life proved rather uneventful for the couple. In fact, Ryan and Gillian acted as young adults, offering advice and other assistance to the likes of Laura, Leo and Greenlee. Troubled by Laura's life-and-death battle, Gillian decided to become an organ donor. It was her way of showing Laura that she was wishing her the best. At about the same time, Gillian befriended television producer Ilene Pringle, a woman who produced a reality television show set on Ryan's yacht. Ilene promised Gillian easy money if she'd allow her to produce a biography of her life. Wanting to be able to help Ryan with his financial difficulties, Gillian agreed - against Ryan's wishes. As it turned out, Ilene was not a television producer, but rather an assassin hired by Charlotte Devane to gun down Anna Devane. On Monday, June 18th, Ilene mistook Gillian, who had her back turned towards her, for Anna and shot and mortally wounded her. On June 25th, Ryan made the difficult decision to have Gillian removed from life support so that her heart could be donated to Laura English.
Life after death proved extremely eventful for Gillian, who refused to believe that she was really dead. Jesse Hubbard, Natalie Dillon, Harold the dog, Jeremy Hunter and Travis Montgomery -- all beloved Pine Valley residents who have passed away -- showed up in a pre-Heaven waiting area to help guide Gillian to Heaven. Gillian remained convinced that she could return to life and to Ryan and reached out to Opal to deliver her messages to Ryan. As a coping mechanism, Ryan found comfort in the arms of an equally distraught Liza Chandler, who had just learned that her husband, Adam, had been cheating on her. The pair made love on several occasions. Ryan was devastated when she miscarried his child after a fall down the stairs.
As Ryan tried to come to terms with Gillian's death, he was hit by yet another loss. On September 26th, 2001, Ryan's mother died of lung cancer. Shortly after his mother's loss, Ryan learned that his mother had been keeping a secret from him. Gail Lavery had a sexual relationship with Christopher Stamp. Nine months after the affair, Gail had a baby - Ryan. Ryan's life was turned upside-down when he learned that Chris, a man whose arrogance he loathed, was his father. Things were further complicated by the fact that Chris had shot and killed Ryan's abusive "dad," Patrick Curry during a drug bust several years prior.
When Erica's daughter, Kendall, returned to Pine Valley she became Ryan's neighbor at the Pine Cone Hotel. Their mutual antagonism eventually turned to affection. Ryan got caught up in the Proteus investigation and was shot by a sniper who was aiming for Chris. After he recovered Ryan returned to a job bartending at SOS.
Chris went to Ryan with a letter he received posthumously from Ryan's mother, in which she talked about her love for both of them and her guilt over keeping Ryan from his real father. Chris gave Ryan a ring that he once gave to Ryan's mother. When Kendall accepted his marriage proposal, Ryan gave the ring to his new fiancé and they made plans to leave Pine Valley as soon as her name was cleared. Ryan's faith in her innocence became a source of contention between him and Chris. On his wedding day, Ryan looked for his father to invite him to the ceremony but he instead found Kendall trying to seduce Aidan Devane. Instead of leaving Pine Valley with his new wife, Ryan roared out of town on his motorcycle - alone -- as Kendall stood in the rain begging for him to stay.
Ryan returned to Pine Valley in 2003 and called a secret meeting to announce that he had become the owner of the multi-billion dollar Cambias Enterprises fortune from the late Alexander Cambias, who he had met somewhere in the desert. The only thing that would prevent him from inheriting it all was if the sleazy Michael Cambias had fathered a child. When Bianca learned that she had gotten pregnant following Michael's sexual assault on her, things turned upside down. Kendall agreed to pretend that she was pregnant in order to divert attention from Bianca. However, Ryan believed that Kendall was claiming that she was pregnant as a way to get the Cambias fortune. While Ryan was determined to find out the truth, Kendall and Bianca panicked about the baby. They told David and David offered to help make Kendall look as though she was pregnant. Ryan blabbed the news of Kendall's pregnancy to Greenlee Dupres, who informed her arch enemy, Erica. Ryan forced Kendall to take a pregnancy test to determine if she was lying and to settle the dispute about the Cambias will. Maria Gray performed the test as everyone watched. Bianca created a distraction outside, and David quickly swapped Kendall's blood sample with one he had drawn previously from Bianca.
As this was happening, Kendall was arrested for Michael's murder, although everyone in Pine Valley seemed to think she was innocent -- even Erica. Ryan approached Bianca about Kendall's pregnancy and told her that he knew Kendall would pass the DNA test. He never came out and said it, but Ryan implied that he knew that it was Bianca who was pregnant. Despite Ryan's willingness to help, Kendall constantly turned him away. Later, however, Kendall agreed to let Ryan help out. He hired a top-notch doctor who agreed to conduct a non-invasive paternity test on Bianca and say that she had conducted the test on Kendall. The test results satisfied the court, but there were still those who doubted that Kendall was really pregnant. In the middle of court, Greenlee duPres yanked Kendall's dress off, revealing a pregnancy pooch. The incident turned everything upside down. Everyone put two and two together and realized that Bianca was carrying Michael's child. Ryan did the honorable thing -- and one required by law -- and signed over the Cambias estate to Bianca's child. However, later when Bianca's baby was believed to be dead, lawyers for the Cambias estate took it upon themselves to put the wheels of justice in motion and return everything to Ryan.
Ryan and Kendall tried to build a future together, but Kendall couldn't accept Ryan's friendship with Greenlee. When she barred Greenlee from working at Fusion thanks to her ties to Bianca (who was now co-owner of Cambias), Ryan suggested a platonic marriage to Greenlee. Kendall tried to stop the ceremony but when Ryan realized she had not forgiven her anger at Greenlee, he married Greenlee as planned. Before long, he found himself falling in love with Greenlee, and the two decided to make their platonic relationship real. Around the same time, Ryan's brother Jonathan showed up in Pine Valley. Ryan was shot at Zach Cambias' murder party, and initially suspected Ethan Ramsey, a newcomer in town who claimed to be Zach's son, and who quickly became involved with Kendall. After being shot at again, Ryan began to believe that Zach, and not Ethan, was the culprit. When Greenlee began acting strangely, Ryan began wondering if Kendall may have done it, especially with Jonathan pointing the finger of blame at her, although Greenlee believed she was innocent. During this time, Ethan was proven to be a real Cambias after all, and Bianca's daughter Miranda was learned to be alive and well. Ryan signed Cambias over to the rightful owners (Ethan and Miranda), which infuriated Jonathan.
Although Jonathan's behavior was getting more and more erratic, Ryan refused to believe that his brother was anything except the shy little boy he remembered. Greenlee even suspected Jonathan of poisoning her, but Ryan just couldn't believe it. Ryan finally accepted that Jonathan was out of control not long after learning that Patrick Lavery, and not Chris Stamp, was his biological father. Jonathan pointed the finger at Braden and insisted he was the one poisoning Greenlee, but after Greenlee, Kendall and Lily were kidnapped, Ryan learned the truth -- Jonathan had killed Braden and was behind everything himself. In order to save the women, Ryan shot Jonathan, who was then buried in an explosion he had set up in the mines. Ryan could not get over the guilt at having killed Jonathan and began participating in no holds barred fights at underground clubs. He also planned to have himself sterilized so that he could never create future Laverys. Ryan had the vasectomy, but Greenlee wasn't prepared to take no for an answer and she, Kendall and Simone broke into the clinic where Ryan had stored his sperm years earlier. Ryan was furious when Greenlee told him she was pregnant and nearly hit her before taking off. He drove his motorcycle off a cliff and was presumed dead.
Ryan had actually managed to walk away from the crash, but allowed his friends and family to believe he was dead with Zach's help. He was able to trace his sister Erin's last known whereabouts to Nova Scotia, Canada, and headed up there to make sure she was okay. Erin was less than pleased to see him and Ryan was determined to find out what secret she was hiding. It turned out that she had been hiding Jonathan in her cabin, and was trying to help him. Together the siblings finally figured out that Jonathan's madness had a biological cause -- he had a brain tumor. The tumor was successfully removed and, after overhearing a visiting Greenlee tell Erin how much she loved Ryan and learned of her miscarriage, decided to return to Pine Valley. Ryan crashed his own memorial service, and although initially Greenlee was thrilled to see him alive, once she learned about Jonathan she was furious and threw him out. Ryan was soon faced with another bombshell -- Kendall was carrying his and Greenlee's baby! At Thanksgiving, Greenlee told the whole town that the baby was biologically Kendall's and not hers, and left Ryan and Pine Valley. Ryan was initially angry with Kendall, but finally grew to understand that she did it because she loved both him and Greenlee.
Although neither Kendall nor Ryan were certain they were prepared to raise the child, they agreed to continue with the pregnancy, and Ryan offered to do everything he could to help Kendall. When he exposed Zach for creating the blackout that had ruined Greenlee's eggs and prompted Kendall to have herself implanted with Ryan's sperm, Kendall was furious with him. She eventually forgave Ryan, and even offered him the chance to have a place in his son's life. When Kendall was seriously injured in an accident at Fusion, Ryan sided with Erica in wanting to save Kendall and take the baby early (as well as realizing that he had fallen back in love with Kendall), but talking with Zach helped Ryan realize that Kendall really did want to put the baby first. Luckily both Kendall and Spike made it through just fine. After Spike's birth, though, Ryan was tormented with the thought that Greg Madden may have used his own sperm, rather than Ryan's, to inseminate Kendall.
