Ryan Cutrona

Ryan Cutrona is an American actor. He shares two Screen Actors Guild Awards with the Ensemble of Mad Men for his role as 'Grandpa Gene', Betty Draper's father. He is perhaps best known for playing gruff authority figures and military men in both dramatic and comedic roles in films and on television. He began his career training and performing with experimental theater auteurs and later, radio. He collaborated with Joe Frank on his Peabody Award winning National Public Radio series', "Work In Progress", "Somewhere Out There", "In The Dark", and "The Other Side", produced at legendary KCRW. He has performed at noted theater festivals, including The Theater Of Nations, and on stages in New York City (New York Theater Workshop, Vineyard Theater) and Los Angeles (Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse). His World Premiere performances of texts by Samuel Beckett (La MaMa ETC, PS 122) have been hailed by Mel Gussow in The New York Times as "...a direct emanation of (Beckett's) vision".