Ryan Potter is a US actor director martial artist photographer and philanthropist He was born in Portland Oregon but spent much of his childhood in Tokyo At the age of seven he moved back to the United States Ryan started acting at the age of fifteen after seeing a leaflet looking for candidates for a martial artsthemed Nickelodeon series Supah Ninjas 2011 He was cast as Mike Fukanaga on the show which ran from 2011 to 2013 He also played Freds Best Friend on the series Fred The Show 2012 In 2013 Ryan appeared in the short film Save the Date 2013 In 2014 he starred in both the independent film Senior Project 2014 and Disneys computeranimated superhero blockbuster Big Hero 6 2014 In the latter film he voiced the lead character Hiro Hamada a child prodigy who teams with a large robot Ryan voiced Hiro again the videogame Disney Infinity Marvel Super Heroes 2014 Ryan will next play Eric Barret in the film Underdog Kids 2015 In 2011 Ryan founded Toy Box of Hope a charity for children living in homeless shelters and transitive living facilities