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Popular As	Ryan Carrassi
Occupation	Writer
Age	53 years old
Zodiac Sign	Leo
Born	August 1, 1971 (La Spezia, Liguria, Italy)
Birthday	August 1
Town/City	La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
Nationality	Italy

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Ryan Carrassi’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Ryan Carrassi was born in the Year of the Pig. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Pig are extremely nice, good-mannered and tasteful. They’re perfectionists who enjoy finer things but are not perceived as snobs. They enjoy helping others and are good companions until someone close crosses them, then look out! They’re intelligent, always seeking more knowledge, and exclusive. Compatible with Rabbit or Goat.

Nicola Bartolini Carrassi was born on August 1,1971. In 1987 he began his career as the presenter of a series of TV-shows devoted to kids and youth audience, hosting over 4,000 hours of live TV, concerts and road shows.

In 1990, he started a new line of creative work: voice talent, voice director, and dialog supervisor in an animated series broadcast by Mediaset -the first commercial network in Italy, France, Spain and Germany.

In 1992 he joined Telepiu' (SKY Italia) and after a period as an actor, he became the Head of the Writers' Department. In 1993 he was promoted to executive producer and story-writer and put in charge of localizing the company's most important properties managed by the network.

During this period he wrote 'Piccoli problemi di Cuore' a 61 x 30-minute series inspired by the stories of Marmalade Boy, a Japanese animated character produced by Toei Animation. Carrassi also created new properties for the Milan Football Club, Panini Comics, Marvel Italia, and Mediolanum Comunicazione.

One of his projects from this time, 'Cartoni&Tv' is still today, one of the most famous brands appearing in books, magazines, CD collections, and other merchandising products, earning a European Animation Award.

In 1999 Nicola Bartolini Carrassi moved to Hollywood, California and changed his name to the more American sounding Ryan Carrassi. In Hollywood, he worked as producer and consultant for television broadcasters and US content producers.

Then, in 2001 Ryan returned to Italy taking on the roles of Marketing Manager, Creative Director, and finally General Manager for Alboran Spa, a Mediolanum Company. At Alboran Spa in 2002, Ryan created and launched Europe's first web TV platform powered by Eutelsat.

In addition, he also produced My Virtual Boy, a project that changed the panorama of the World Wide Web, introducing a format that would help contribution to the success of web 2.0.In 2003 Ryan joined Mediafilm Spa as Creative Director in charge of the Marketing Division and Content Acquisition Department focusing on Horror Movies and Animation.

In 2005 as General Manager he created a new distribution workflow for Medusa Home video, a Fininvest Company, and 20th Century Fox Italy. As Head of Acquisitions, he made deals for feature titles such as "Freddy vs Jason", "A Home at the End of the World", "The Pool", "Ants in the Pants (Porky College)", and the complete catalogue of David DeCoteau movies.

He wrote and produced "The Pool 2", the sequel to German movie "The Pool" and co-edited "Day of the Dead 2" - winning a prize for the best marketing campaign, "Brotherhood", "Final Stab" and many more.

He founded "TGCOM Teens" the youth version of the famous on-line news magazine produced by RTI Multimedia. Since1993 Ryan has also been involved in journalism writing for to the newspaper La Nazione, contributing numerous columns and reviews devoted to animation, TV shows, movies, celebrity gossip, and previews.

A talented song writer, Ryan has written theme music for animation series, films, TV movies and television programs. He has published six novels, Bayside School inspired by the famous Power Rangers series, plus an autobiography and a history of animation from 1975 until the present.

Ryan has created, direct and published several magazines such as Cartoni&tv published by Panini Comics, Poster tv, Ukiyo, Uncensored Monthly, il DVD dei Piccoli, Cinema Francese, Fumetti in DVD.Ryan also continues to be the official Italian voice-actor for the characters "Brock" (Pokemon), "Batman" (Batman Beyond), "Ewan McGregor" (Lucas Arts Star Wars videogames) and "Dudy", the Milan Football club mascot.

He has just published his first novel in Spanish and Japanese.