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Zachery Tyler Bryan (born October 9, 1981) is an American actor best known for his role as Brad Taylor on the American sitcom Home Improvement.

Personal life

Bryan was born in Aurora, Colorado, the son of Jenny, a talent manager, and Dwight Bryan, a vice president of a pipeline company.¹ His second cousin is Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn.² His second cousin Laura, Brady's sister, is married to Green Bay Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk. He has a younger sister named Ciri. In 2007, Zachery married longtime girlfriend Carly Matros.

Career

Before he starred in Home Improvement, he started in Denver with print and television advertising. His interest in acting soon brought him to California, where he received the role of Brad, the oldest Taylor child, in the show Home Improvement. His character was known for experimenting with different hair styles as well as being the child most often in trouble.

After Home Improvement ended, Bryan made brief appearances in many other television shows, including (1995) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as Steve, (2002) Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Peter Nicols, (2005) Veronica Mars as Caz Truman, and (2006) Shark as Scott Natterson, as well as a guest appearance on an episode of Reading Rainbow. He also appeared on Smallville in 2003 where he played Eric Marsh, a high school baseball player using steroids made from meteor rock. He was the second Home Improvement alum to make a guest appearance on the show. In 2005, Bryan appeared as Bryan Nolan in ESPN's TV movie Code Breakers. Bryan also guest starred in Cold Case (as the young murderer in the flashback scenes) and more recently as a young man hiring a hitman to kill his stepmother on the show Burn Notice.³

Bryan's film roles include the school bully in the 1996 Sinbad comedy First Kid, and the 1998 TV movie The Principal Takes A Holiday. He also starred as Eric in 1999's The Rage: Carrie 2. More recently, he had a small role as Clay in 2007's The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. He also played an extra in the 2009 TV mini-series Meteor, which aired on NBC.

He and his wife are working on a documentary with ESPN.^{citation needed}

He has recently started a company, Vision Entertainment Group, which has already produced "The Strays", which will be released in 2010 and distributed by Lionsgate.^{citation needed}

References

External links

• Zachery Ty Bryan at the Internet Movie Database
• Zachery Ty Bryan at Allmovie
• Zachery Ty Bryan at TV.com