Zachery Ty Bryan

American actor

Zachery Tyler Bryan (born October 9, 1981) is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for his role as Brad Taylor on the ABC sitcom Home Improvement. He also appeared in the films True Heart and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Bryan was born in Aurora, Colorado, to Jenny and Dwight Bryan.

Before he starred in Home Improvement, he appeared in local print and television advertising in Denver. He then appeared at a showcase in New York City, directed by Peter Seidman, where he was seen by a professional talent representative. This, and his interest in acting soon brought him to California, where he was cast in 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. He is one month younger than Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who played his younger brother Randy on the show. In the middle of Home Improvement Bryan made an appearance as Steve on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air in 1995. After Home Improvement ended, Bryan made brief appearances in many other television shows including (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. Additionally, he made a cameo appearance on MTV's I Bet You Will in which he portrayed himself and competed in a challenge where he wrestled female convicted felons. In 2001, he portrayed an ice hockey player in an episode of Touched by an Angel. 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 after Jonathan Taylor Thomas. 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 in 2008 as a young man hiring a hitman to kill his stepmother on the show Burn Notice. Bryan's film roles include the school bully in the 1996 Sinbad comedy First Kid. He starred in the 1995 movie Magic Island as Jack Carlisle, and the 1998 TV movie The Principal Takes A Holiday. He also starred as Eric in 1999's The Rage: Carrie 2. Later, he played defender Harry Keough alongside Gerard Butler in the 2005 movie The Game of Their Lives otherwise known as The Miracle Match about the 1950 US upset at the World Cup. In 2006, he played as a villain named Clay in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, then in the 2009 TV mini series Meteor, which aired on NBC. He also played Thor in the made for TV Syfy channel film Thor: Hammer of the Gods. The film originally aired on November 29, 2009. In 2022, he was cast in a small role in The Guardians of Justice.

Bryan's cousin is former NFL quarterback Brady Quinn. Bryan and Matros divorced in September 2020 after 13 years of marriage. On November 17, 2021, Bryan announced his engagement to model Johnnie Faye. In early November 2022, Bryan and Faye announced they were expecting twins. They will be Bryan’s sixth and seventh children, and his second set of twins.

In October 2020, Bryan was held on several charges including felony strangulation, misdemeanor charges of fourth degree assault and interfering with making a police report, after an apparent argument with his girlfriend in their apartment in Lane County, Oregon. In February 2021, Bryan pleaded guilty to two of the charges, while six others were dismissed. He was sentenced to three years of bench probation and ordered to partake in a batterer intervention program and to have no contact with the victim. In June 2023, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Bryan was accused of running a fraudulent agriculture technology startup scheme. The amount of money Bryan earned from the scheme is said to have totaled close to $50,000. On the morning of February 17, 2024, Bryan was arrested for alleged DUI after a traffic collision in La Quinta, California. Bryan was charged with both a misdemeanor "contempt of court" and a felony for operating a vehicle while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. This would be his fourth DUI charge.