Born: February 28, 1988

Maryland-born actor Ryan Pinkston's interest in competitive karate predated his devotion to acting, but all of that changed at the age of 13 when a performance on the Ed McMahon-hosted Star_Search lifted him into the national spotlight, and not long after, when Ashton_Kutcher featured Pinkston on the MTV candid camera series Punk'd. The sequences in question found Pinkston approaching unsuspecting celebrities and hurling insults at them in front of a hidden camera (as a self-described correspondent for a "kid's interview show"). Taking the success of this as a cue, Pinkston gravitated to a full-time career in acting, and specialized in comedic films that mirrored the Punk'd bits in tone and mood. These included the raunchy Billy_Bob_Thornton comedy Bad_Santa (2003), the urban farce Soul_Plane (2004), the sex comedy spoof Extreme_Movie (2007), and the teen-oriented sex comedy College (2008). Nathan Southern, Rovi

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