Shawn Ryan
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Emerging from a Midwestern upbringing in Rockford, Illinois, Ryan grew up with a schoolteacher mother and a CPA father before earning his degree from Middlebury College in 1988. His break came after winning the Norman Lear Playwriting award, which led to staff positions on series such as Nash Bridges and Angel, and eventually to creating the gritty police drama The Shield, for which he earned a 20…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources