Early Life
Ritter was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Nancy Morgan and (the late) John Ritter, and the grandson of musician/actor, Tex Ritter, and Dorothy Fay. His stepmother is actress Amy Yasbeck. He has three siblings.
Ritter attended middle and high school at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California, with Simon Helberg, who became his roommate at NYU. He then attended (as did Helberg) and graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied at the Atlantic Theatre Company. He also studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
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