Life and career

Ritter was born and raised in Stillwater, Oklahoma. His mother, Tracey Rains, is an employee at Stillwater Public Schools. He has an older brother, Zack, who is an endodontist, and a younger sister, Bailey. He and his siblings graduated from Stillwater High School. Ritter met his bandmates while he was bouncing a party in middle school.

After Jesse Tabish quit the band, and with the additions of Mike Kennerty and Chris Gaylor, The All-American Rejects were picked up by Doghouse Records, and later DreamWorks Records, and finally with the current major label of Interscope Records. The All-American Rejects have released four albums to date, and have sold over 10 million albums worldwide, and 4 million singles.

Ritter has appeared in television series and films such as House (2007), The House Bunny (2008), Betas (2013-14), and Parenthood (2013-15). On November 5, 2013, Ritter released the song "Air" as a solo song to help "ride between the Rejects' next record", which was featured on Parenthood.

Shortly after the release of "Air" Tyson wrote the song "Collide" which was also featured on Parenthood. The song was never released on the market but is still available on sites like Youtube.

Ritter's next projects included a role in the John Cusack film Love and Mercy (2014). He had also been cast in the lead role of singer Gregg Allman in the biopic Midnight Rider, directed by Randall Miller, but the film was halted in production, and ultimately cancelled, due to the death of camera assistant Sarah Jones. In 2015, he had a supporting role in the comedy-drama film Miss You Already, which starred Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore.

Personal life

Ritter and actress Elena Satine were engaged in April 2013 and married on New Year's Eve of the same year. He has been friends with bandmate Nick Wheeler ever since they met in high school.

Equipment

Ritter personally likes to use Fender bass guitars. He had previously used Epiphone Flying V or Epiphone Explorer basses during the era of The All-American Rejects (album), until he started to favor a Fender Precision Bass and started using them more often in his songs. Ritter was also seen using a Gibson Thunderbird bass on their early tours for Move Along and also with a rare Jackson Guitars V Bass. He then later used Fender Jaguar Bass guitars for later tours before switching back to Fender Precision Basses.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	The House Bunny	Colby
2014	Love and Mercy	Hipster #1
2015	The Pinhole Affect	Tyson Ritter	Short film
2015	Miss You Already	Ace
2016	The Sweet Life	Marlon	In post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	House	Himself	Episode: "Fetal Position"
2012	90210	Himself	Episode: "Trust, Truth and Traffic"
2013-14	Betas	Dane	5 episodes
2013-15	Parenthood	Oliver Rome	10 episodes
2015	Wicked City	Bucket	2 episodes

[ Source: Wikipedia ]