Alan Ritchson

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Alan Ritchson is an actor, writer, and producer best known as Thad Castle in Blue Mountain State and as Jack Reacher on Amazon, with earlier roles as Aquaman on Smallville, Hawk on Titans, and Raphael in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films. His own writing and producing, including the Blue Mountain State movie, Dark Web: Cicada 3301, and Reacher as executive producer, is genre action and comedy, not identity-driven storytelling. Raised Catholic in a military family, he has said he voted straight Republican in his twenties and now speaks as a devout Christian who wants powerful institutions scrutinized and the overlooked protected. He has repeatedly called Donald Trump a rapist and a con man, criticized conservative Christian support for Trump as antithetical to Jesus' teachings, called Bernie Sanders a hero, and in 2026 attacked Trump over the Epstein files, calling that his politics. In 2020 he wore a shirt reading Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor; he later posted about George Floyd and inequality baked into policing, said cops get away with murder, and publicly fought the Fraternal Order of Police over those remarks. Those police-reform and anti-Trump comments are a recurring public pattern, not a representation-first film and TV career.