Matthew C. Ryan

Matthew C. Ryan. Actor: Water for Elephants. Matthew C. Ryan was born Matthew Ryan Carreiro in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is the middle child of Louis G. Carreiro Jr., a physical chemist, and Kathryn Edith Carreiro (née Mello), a chemical lab technician. He has Portuguese, English, and French ancestry. Matthew spent most of his youth in southeastern Massachusetts, and graduated from the prestigious Portsmouth Abbey High School, in Portsmouth RI....