@USER TWEETED : ❝ 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐓, I JUST MET 𝕀𝕊𝔸𝔹𝔼𝕃𝕃𝔼 ℝ𝕐𝔸ℕ ! ❞
excuse me, did you see TAYLOR SWIFT hanging around palmwood studios? oh no, that was ISABELLE RYAN, the twenty-eight year old actress who plays ROSALIE BLUE on MATES. yeah, you know rumour has it they’re - capricious, and - implacable, but their fans all say they’re + convival, and + sage. around palmwood studios they’re known as THE COSMOGYRAL. ( cis female, she/her )
GENERAL INFO.
NAME: isabelle avery ryan.
NICKNAME(S): iz, belle, bells, jingle bells, tiffany ( her drunk alter ego )
BIRTHDAY: november 22, 1994.
AGE: twenty-eight.
GENDER: cis female.
PRONOUNS: she/her.
ZODIAC: scorpio / sagittarius cusp.
SEXUALITY: lesbian currently at the literal back of the closet.
NOTABLE PROJECTS: mates ( rosalie blue ) , the hunger games ( glimmer ) , hannah montana ( titular character )
THE STORY SO FAR.
POTENTIAL TW AHEAD: brief mentions of familial death, drug use, infidelity, and the growing pains of childhood stardom
isabelle was a hot topic front page headline in the grocery store check out lines long before she was born —— her mother, eliza ryan was in the peak of her career when she fell in love with her costar beckett beaumont ( think carrie x harrison ) in between takes and interviews and late night call times. they never were destined to be anything other than hotel card keys in back pockets and exchanged smiles down the press line, but somewhere in between, eliza found herself pregnant around the same time that beckett ended things and went to film in new zealand for nine months. armored up with her pride and the knowledge that her nights would never be lonely again, eliza left her stratospheric rise hanging in the balance while she disappeared to a corner of the eastern us to finish her pregnancy and give birth to isabelle.
isabelle had a fairly “normal” first few years of life ; once she was school-age, eliza made the decision to return to producing and directing, which meant spending more time in new york city on the weekends and during vacation months. she learned how to add numbers in her mom’s trailer, waltzed up and down the aisles of planes, drifted off in directors chairs when boredom overtook her. her aunts and uncles were some of the most prominent figures in the industry — acting, however, never was an interest for isabelle. film and tv was what her mom spoke, though, so as isabelle got older, she tried to learn the language. she’d go on auditions, try out for movie roles or even guest spot roles, but even being eliza ryan’s child didn’t set her apart enough. it was fairly evident to casting agents that her heart was elsewhere — music. she started playing piano at age six, singing more than she spoke and was just beginning to delve into writing her own music. when she was twelve, her mom caught wind of a tv show on, surprise surprise, the disney channel that isabelle actually had interest in auditioning for. the reason? the show was about a girl who lived a double life as a musician.
scrappy as hell, iz fought tooth and nail for the hannah montana role, not wanting her last name to play any part in putting her one step further — but she landed it, of course, which led to a whirlwind of an adolescence. she was touring at age thirteen, selling out arenas before she even had her driver’s permit at fifteen. she lived underneath a microscope throughout her teen years, every movement of hers scrutinized and carefully calculated by her management team as she got older. hannah montana wrapped in 2010 — by this point, she already had a weed smoking scandal littering tmz archives, released two albums under her own name + all of the hannah montana soundtracks, won best new artist at the grammys, and, the cherry on top, had her entire world cracked wide open in the tabloids when someone put it out that she was, in fact, none other than beckett beaumont’s daughter. it came at a right enough time for isabelle, who promptly dipped from the scene, moved back to new york on her own, and tried to open a door to a relationship with her father.
as the rest of hannah kept airing : isabelle got to know beckett, but most importantly, she fell in love with a woman. isabelle had known from a young age, having to kiss boys on television and constantly being linked to costars, that she wasn’t into guys. she’d kissed friends at sleepovers and just knew that she would never end up with a man. she got into her first real, serious relationship with a woman named alexandria right around her eighteenth birthday and everything made sense. they remained incredibly private with their relationship, evading paparazzi and only telling the inner parts of their innermost circles. she was also working on her fourth studio album / first real album with a new record label; her relationship with alexa was growing more and more serious by the day, and by the summer of 2012, the two were living together and happy as ever, which, of course, was shaping the course of the album.
but isabelle’s management had iron-clad restrictions on her & her public image, all but barring her from coming out, and alexa offered up an ultimatum to isabelle : me or the music. which, in turn, led to fights and arguments and infidelity and a hail mary proposal that went declined, and finally concluded with alexa moving to greece and isabelle completely falling apart. she scrapped the entirety of her album save for only a few songs and in the final two weeks before submission, rewrote an entirely new record and submitted it as red. red came out in fall of 2012, which marked the phase of isabelle’s career where she was strictly devoted to music / touring and only the occasional guest spot or film role on her radar. after growing more confident in herself as an artist through her discography, mates fell into her lap, and doing a sitcom themed around entering adulthood felt very much like a chance to reclaim her childhood and the bouts of trauma / dissonance it had enacted in her life. mates also helped surge her music back into the popular eye after her release of reputation in the beginning of 2017, which was a hard time for her due to a lil tiny feud between her and her parents after her mom’s tell-all dropped and her dad quite literally dropped dead rip beckett beaumont!!
as far as acting goes: isabelle’s first acting project beyond her disney channel filmography was the sisterhood of the traveling pants in 2011, filmed almost immediately after wrapping on hannah montana. she went on to star in the sequel, as well as guest roles in the giver and doing voice work for disney’s frozen as anna. in 2018, isabelle went in to read for the hunger games — one of the first cast, originally slated to play madge undersee but later booking the part of glimmer due to script constraints nixing madge’s character. she had her quiet one episode arcs on shows like law and order: svu, and a handful of supporting or ensemble roles in movies during the off-seasons between album releases and tours, but nothing concrete until mates.
CURRENTLY : isabelle stars as rosalie blue on mates. she has since released and toured for red, 1989, and reputation. released lover while on the reputation tour, and spontaneously dropped the double album folklore + evermore. is re-recording all of her albums that she released with her first two record labels now that she owns her own record label / studio space, lady zeus, after continually being screwed over in her contracts. her management is still an absolute pain in the ass when it comes to her publicly coming out — she is out to her closest friends and family but is still restricted from doing so in the public eye due to the manufactured image created of her & heterosexual ‘reputation’ she’s garnered in her music with all of the ‘isabelle ryan stole my diary! she understands what it’s like to be heartbroken over a boy’ connotation that comes with her. she hates it. she wants nothing more than to be out and free. gearing up for the release of her tenth studio album, midnights.
her label is THE COSMOGYRAL, which is one of my all time faves — it means ‘whirling around the universe,’ which is very much a perfect descriptor of isabelle. she’s all over the fuckin’ place. she’s a hot mess. she’s constantly in new corners of her universe, reinventing herself and finding new pieces and parts to highlight while trying to bury others. she always means well but she’s quicksilver; she is never the same version of herself, she sticks to her guns until she decides she only wants to carry knives from now on. will charm the pants off of just about anyone she comes into contact with. flirty. a little goofy, wildly sarcastic. there’s method to her madness even if no one else gets it. is the passive aggressive type, bottles things up and simmers. stubborn as fuck, fiercely protective and neurotic. she’s almost thirty and she constantly feels like she’s living someone else’s life, no matter how many times she reinvents herself professionally or personally, and it is starting to wear on her soul.
DESIRED CONNECTIONS / PLOTS.
meredith to her cristina — basically her best friend (not gender specific, either) who tells it to isabelle like it is, doesn’t mind if she laments about how the world sucks every now and again, the person she’s calling if she needs help with a body.
pr relationship ! — someone who isabelle’s management has partnered her up with to help promote midnights / xxx. isabelle’s not excited to be in yet another pr relationship, but she’s jaded at this point. either they’re good friends or they hate each other, i’m up to anything
costars / music collaborators — iz is starting to delve into music production so like idk, come to her with all of ur muses musical needs
hookups, friends with benefits, ‘we have casual sex because it’s fun to rile each other up,’ exes of all flavors — isabelle has, in the past, had sex with men bc confused and angry, but anything beyond 2012 will be kept solely for fem - presenting muses !
childhood friends, friends from the disney days, friends who are only friends because their agents told them to play nice, friends that have definitely fought in a club before even though they went in together holding hands, friends who are only friends with her to benefit from it, good influence / bad influence, friends who are forced to be pr enemies and are secretly laughing at the media in private, friends who are only friends when they’re drunk
angsty shit — a plot based off of ‘wrong’ by ally hills, “bad for me but i keep coming around,” someone isabelle calls late at night because she doesn’t want to be alone, a plot based off come back be here by taylor swift except they actually came back and it’s like wtf do we do now,
pls gimme a girl that isabelle is rlly in love with but she’s lowkey sabotaging their relationship because her team is the worst and pushing away is better than losing something good ! and they have to navigate sneaking around and trying not to get caught (and then the panicked moments when they do bc isabelle’s team rlly is the worst) and is just overall the worthwhile fight #iykyk
👀 bring in alexa?? let’s get Messy As Hell
anything and everything ! reach out to me in dms or on discord, let’s have a field day
