Ryan Lane

Ryan Thomas Lane (born November 23, 1987) is an American actor. Lane started his professional career at the age of nineteen and gained recognition for his role as Cincinnati Reds center-fielder William Ellsworth Hoy in the Documentary Channel biography 'Dummy Hoy: A Deaf Hero.' He is also well-known for his recurring role as Travis Barnes on the ABC Family drama series 'Switched at Birth,' for which he received the RJ Mitte Diversity Award at the 2013 Media Access Awards. Lane was born deaf and diagnosed with congenital nerve deafness at two weeks old. He has two older hearing sisters and grew up splitting his time between his father in Ontario, California and his mother in Diamond Bar, California.