J.P. Manoux grew up on the beaches of Santa Barbara, California, the oldest of seven. He was involved in children's theater productions and took tap-dancing lessons before attending the Thacher School in Ojai, California. Curiously, that tiny boarding school would provide no less than three doctors for NBC's long running hospital drama ER (1994) (Noah Wyle and Leland Orser, the other two). As college applications approached, Manoux's drama teacher recommended the undergraduate theater department at Northwestern University.
瑞恩·卡恩斯于1982年12月6日，出生在Illinois大约有4,300人口的小镇Pittsfield。他在Duke大学学习过两年（这里无从考证为什么辍学）。在多年痴迷于体育，音乐及学术之后，Ryan终于决定进军演艺圈。
