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Ryan Timothy Malgarini (born June 12, 1992 in Renton, Washington) is an American teen actor. Ryan Malgarini became interested in acting as a result of watching his grandmother, Gloria Malgarini`s, involvement in commercials. At the age of five, Malgarini was delighted to spot her in a commercial for "Senior Dimensions", a Nevada-based healthcare provider, he pointed at the television and said, "I want to do that!" From that point on Malgarini would appear as an extra for some of his grandmother`s commercials. Malgarini was soon appearing in commercials for McDonald`s and Washington Mutual. He also took acting classes at the famed Young Actors Space in Los Angeles which earned him an agent and a manager. Finally, in 2002, Malgarini made his film debut. The United States of Leland (released in 2004), playing a six-year-old boy in flashback scenes. This was a rather challenging role for Malgarini, since it required him to weep for the first time on screen in a funeral scene. Malgarini rose to the occasion and enjoyed working with Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey.

In 2003, Malgarini played the role of Harry Coleman in Disney`s comedy hit, Freaky Friday, which starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a mother and daughter who magically switch places for a day. He appeared with Tom Hanks in a test film to develop the "performance capture" technology for The Polar Express in 2004, a process in which an actor`s movements and facial expressions are digitally recorded with light sensors, and later used to bring a computer animated character to life. Malgarini recently appeared as "Benjy" in the film adaptation of How to Eat Fried Worms, the beloved gross-out children`s novel by Thomas Rockwell. According to an interview with Malgarini on his official site, he starred as the main character Ugly in the musical Honk!. He appeared in The Robinsons: Lost in Space in 2004. As of September 24, 2008, he stars on CBS`s new comedy Gary Unmarried as Gary`s (Jay Mohr) son Tom.

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