Noah Bean born 1978 is an American actor best known for his role as David Connor on the FX legal drama Damages and as Ryan Fletcher on the 2010 The CW series Nikita as David Connor on the FX legal drama Damages and his leading performance in the independent film The Pill Personal life Bean was born in Boston Massachusetts As a child Bean attended Pine Point School and The Williams School in Connecticut An only child he describes himself as being so quiet and shy that his school would phone his parents asking whether anything was wrong at home I was deathly shy and basically scared of people in general In high school his mother encouraged him to become involved in drama which he says helped him open up I found when I had a script in my hand I could speak6 He later attended Boston Universitys College of Fine Arts before he was offered his first theatre role by director Michael Ritchie Bean hails from Mystic Connecticut although he has lived and worked in Los Angeles and is currently living in New York He is friends with actor Seth Gabel and director Jack Bender and also says he has come to be good friends with Damages coactor and onscreen fiancée Rose Byrne Description above from the Wikipedia article Noah Bean licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia