# Ryan Michelle Bathe

Ryan Michelle Bathé is an American actress. She starred in the ABC legal drama series Boston Legal (2005–06), BET+ comedy-drama series First Wives Club (2019–22), and NBC crime thriller The Endgame (2022).

## Early life

Bathe's mother is Clare Bathé, an actress and singer who was a member of the late 1970s funk/disco/rock group Machine. She grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. She graduated from Stanford University, and she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University. She is a member of the sorority Delta Sigma Theta.

## Career

Bathe has had guest starring roles in a number of television shows, including ER, Half & Half, Girlfriends, Brothers & Sisters, and How I Met Your Mother. She was regular cast member during the second season of the ABC legal drama series Boston Legal playing attorney Sara Holt. From 2009 to 2010, she had a recurring role on the short-lived NBC medical drama Trauma, and in 2011 had starring role in the TV Land sitcom Retired at 35. She had main roles in the independent films All About Us and April Moon.
In 2012, Bathe co-starred opposite Katherine Heigl in the crime comedy film One for the Money. Later that year, she had a recurring role opposite her real life husband Sterling K. Brown in the Lifetime drama series Army Wives. In 2014, she was a female lead opposite Kevin Hart in the ABC comedy pilot Keep It Together. In 2016, Bathe was cast in a recurring role in the NBC drama series, This Is Us, also starring Brown.
In 2018, Bathe was cast as one of leads in the BET+ comedy-drama series First Wives Club based on the film of the same name written by Robert Harling. She left the series after two seasons in 2022. In 2020, she signed a first look deal with ViacomCBS. Bathe appeared in the 2020 romantic comedy film Sylvie's Love and the following year guest-starred on HBO series, A Black Lady Sketch Show. In 2022, Bathe was cast as a lead alongside Morena Baccarin in the NBC heist thriller series The Endgame. In 2023, she played the leading role in the thriller film Boy in the Walls directed by Constance Zimmer, and was cast alongside Terry Crews in the CBS comedy pilot JumpStart.

## Personal life

In June 2007, Bathe married fellow actor and Stanford alum Sterling K. Brown. They have two sons.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2003 | Good Fences | Stormy (age 17) | |
| 2004 | Brother to Brother | Classroom Girl #2 | |
| 2005 | Lackawanna Blues | Nancy's Birthday Party Guest | Television film |
| 2007 | All About Us | Stacey Brown | |
| 2007 | April Moon | Michelle | |
| 2008 | Leaving Barstow | Jenny | |
| 2012 | One for the Money | Jackie | |
| 2020 | Sylvie's Love | Kate Spencer | |
| 2023 | Boy in the Walls | Alisa Jensen | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2001 | The Education of Max Bickford | Sarai | Episode: "Who Is Breckenridge Long?" |
| 2003 | ER | Miss Evelyn | Episode: "Dear Abby" |
| 2004 | Half & Half | Aurora | Episode: "The Big I Haven't the Vegas Idea Episode" |
| 2004 | Girlfriends | Becky | Episodes: "L.A. Bound" |
| 2005–2006 | Boston Legal | Sara Holt | Main cast: season 2 |
| 2006 | Pink Collar | Alix | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2007 | Brothers & Sisters | Noreen | Episodes: "Sexual Politics" & "Love Is Difficult" |
| 2007 | Medium | Claire Williams | Episode: "We Had a Dream" |
| 2007 | Girlfriends | Traci Blackwell | Episodes: "Church Lady" & "A House Divided" |
| 2008 | How I Met Your Mother | Michelle | Episode: "Sandcastles in the Sand" |
| 2009 | Bones | Erin Miller | Episode: "The Double Death of the Dearly Departed" |
| 2009 | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Woman Office Worker | Episode: "A Very Sunny Christmas" |
| 2009 | Brothers | Kathleen | Episode: "Snoop Returns" |
| 2010 | Private Practice | Robin | Episode: "Pulling the Plug" |
| 2009–2010 | Trauma | Sela Boone | Recurring cast |
| 2011 | Retired at 35 | Jessica Sanders | Main cast: season 1 |
| 2011 | Harry's Law | Mrs. Thomas | Episode: "American Girl" |
| 2012 | Army Wives | Charlie | Recurring cast: season 6 |
| 2014 | Franklin & Bash | Denise Parker | Episode: "Spirits in the Material World" |
| 2014 | Keep It Together | | TV pilot |
| 2015 | Romantically Speaking | Krista | TV pilot |
| 2016 | Guidance | Dr. Rhonda Bartlett | Episodes: "Rumor or Trumor?" & "Bam Bam" |
| 2016 | Dr. Ken | Miss Flanagan | Episode: "Ken's Apology" |
| 2016–2018 | This Is Us | Yvette | Recurring cast: Season 1, guest: Season 3 |
| 2017 | Linda from HR | Sierra | TV pilot |
| 2018 | Empire | Celeste | Recurring cast: Season 4 |
| 2018 | Every Other Weekend | Ryan | Main cast |
| 2018 | The Rookie | Det. Paige | Episodes: "Crash Course" & "The Hawke" |
| 2018 | Steps | Genevieve | TV pilot |
| 2019 | Timeline | Mrs. Sklar | Main cast |
| 2019–2021 | First Wives Club | Ariel "Ari" Montgomery | Series regular, 17 episodes |
| 2020–2023 | All Rise | Rachel Audubon | Recurring cast, 19 episodes |
| 2021 | A Black Lady Sketch Show | Amara | Episodes: "So You Just Out Here Chloroforming Anybody?" |
| 2022 | The Endgame | Val Turner | Series regular, 10 episodes |
| 2023 | JumpStart | Marcy | TV pilot |