
After graduating from Loyola High School, a Roman Catholic Jesuit prep school in Towson, Maryland in suburban Baltimore County, Ryan attended Boston College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics (with a strong minor in history) and was a rower. Without Remorse mentioned that his sister is younger than he is, and that he wanted to join the Marines to get a scholarship so the family would have more money for her education. Patriot Games mentioned that he had a sister, who lived in Seattle. His mother, Catherine Burke Ryan, was a nurse. The elder Ryan had served with Easy Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division at the Battle of the Bulge. His father, Emmet William Ryan, was a Baltimore Police Department homicide lieutenant and World War II veteran. Ryan was born in 1950 to an Irish Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

1.3.4 The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988)įictional biography Early life.John Krasinski is the fifth and latest actor to portray Ryan in the Amazon Prime web series of the same name, which was first broadcast in 2018. The Jack Ryan film series from 1990 to 2014 have an unadjusted worldwide gross revenue of $788.4 million to date, making it the 57th highest-grossing film series. Jack Ryan has been portrayed in film adaptations by actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine. Ryan went on to serve two non-consecutive terms and mostly dealt with international crises in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. After retiring from the CIA, Ryan later served as National Security Advisor and Vice President before suddenly becoming President of the United States following a terrorist attack on the United States Capitol. Ryan joins the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an analyst and occasional field officer, eventually leaving it as Deputy Director. Marine and stockbroker who becomes a civilian history professor at the United States Naval Academy (USNA). The son of a Baltimore police detective and a nurse, Ryan is a former U.S. Since Clancy's death in 2013, four other authors have continued the franchise and its other connecting series with the approval of the Clancy family estate: Mark Greaney, Grant Blackwood, Mike Maden, and Marc Cameron. KCVO (Hon.) is a fictional character created by author Tom Clancy and featured in his Ryanverse novels, which have consistently topped the New York Times bestseller list over 30 years.
