Ryan Bloum

AGE: 19

HOMETOWN: Del Mar, California

MOVED TO LA: I haven’t yet.

PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE: I’ve been a paragliding instructor.

FIRST ACTING GIG: I haven’t gotten one yet. I was in one play in sixth grade. It was The Grinch and I played a little elf. I wasn’t very tall.

FAVORITE MOVIE: Pulp Fiction [1994].

ROLE MODEL: Tom Cruise, because he was in Top Gun [1986], and I really like that movie.

MOST MEMORABLE AUDITION: The first audition I ever went to was for the Razor scooter company. It was just really fun. I rode a scooter around on a little white-wall background. I didn’t fall, luckily.

MOST HOLLYWOOD EXPERIENCE: Staying at my grandma’s mansion in Beverly Hills. My grandpa was Jimmy Durante, and it’s cool just to look through her house and see everything.

PHOTO: SHORTS: EMPORIO ARMANI. SPEEDO: CALVIN KLEIN. HAT: Y-3. SOCKS: ADIDAS. SNEAKERS: GOURMET NFN. TOPS (ON LINE, FROM LEFT): KELLY COLE, JACK SPADE, CALVIN KLEIN JEANS, RAG & BONE.