Occupation Actor, Producer Height 1.80 m Years active 1990– Present Spouse Carly Matros (m. 2007) | Name Zachery Bryan Role Actor | |
![]() | ||
Full Name Zachery Ty Bryan Children Taylor Simone Bryan, Gemma Rae Bryan Movies and TV shows Similar People Taran Noah Smith, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Tim Allen | ||
Parents Dwight Bryan, Jenny Bryan |
A father s day message for tim the tool man taylor feat zachery ty bryan dads of our lives
Zachery Ty Bryan (born October 9, 1981) is an American actor and producer best known for his role as Brad Taylor on the American sitcom Home Improvement.
Contents
- A father s day message for tim the tool man taylor feat zachery ty bryan dads of our lives
- Zachery ty bryan finds a pizza tree
- Personal life
- Career
- Wins
- Nominations
- References

Zachery ty bryan finds a pizza tree
Personal life

Bryan was born in Aurora, Colorado, the son of Jenny and Dwight Bryan. He has a younger sister named Ciri. He attended La Salle High School, graduating in the Class of 2000. In 2007, he married Carly Matros whom he met while attending La Canada Junior High School. He is the father of 3 daughters born in 2014 (twins) and 2016.
Career

Before he starred in Home Improvement, he started in Denver with print and television advertising. He then appeared at a showcase in New York City, directed by Peter Sklar, where he was seen by a professional talent representative. This, and his interest in acting soon brought him to California, where he received 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 actually 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 Gomer 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 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.
Wins
