Debby Ryan Biography

Deborah Ann “Debby” Ryan is a TV star of the Disney Channel, best known as Bailey Pickett on the series The Suite Life on Deck, the spin-off of the hit series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.  Debby Ryan’s first big professional TV gig was in 2006, on the children’s show Barney & Friends (starring Barney the Dinosaur).  She was cast as Bailey Pickett, a farm girl from Kansas, for the 2008 series The Suite Life on Deck, a series featuring Disney stars Dylan and Cole Sprouse. Ryan became a popular co-star and distinguished herself as one in a line of young Disney-born celebrities that includes Ashley Tisdale and Miley Cyrus.  After the three-year run of The Suite Life on Deck, Debby Ryan was given her own show on the Disney Channely, 2011’s Jessie.