Ryan Potter (born September 12, 1995) is an American actor, voice actor and martial artist. Beginning his career as a professional actor at the age of fifteen, Potter is perhaps best known for his starring role as Mike Fukanaga on the Nickelodeon martial-arts themed comedy-action series Supah Ninjas, and for voicing the lead character, Hiro Hamada, in the Marvel-based, Disney animated film Big Hero 6.
Potter was born on September 12, 1995 in Portland, Oregon. His father is Japanese and his mother is American; Ryan uses her last name, "Potter". He is Jewish on his mother's side. He was raised in Tokyo, Japan, until returning to the United States when he was seven. He was raised by his single mother. Potter grew up fluent in both Japanese and English, his first language being Japanese and his second English. At the age of eight, he began studying White Tiger kung fu, a discipline which he would continue to pursue throughout his teenage years. Other childhood interests reportedly included baseball, skateboarding, and playing the drums.