Stevie Ryan, born 1984, is an American actress who grew up in Victorville, California, moving to Los Angeles in 2005. She is probably most well known for her presence on the World Wide Web via her videos on sites such as YouTube and Live Video, especially the videos featuring her fictional character Little Loca.
Ryan is credited with two film roles:
Ryan began posting her own self-produced videos on YouTube in 2006, made with a video camera borrowed from her boyfriend.
Many videos on YouTube are video blogs; Ryan, instead of posting her own blog, posted parodies of other bloggers. She also started a fictional blog for a character whose YouTube account name was littleloca. Her other account names are:
stevieryan
Ooolalaa
TheRealParis
In 2006, Ryan was accused by other YouTube users of creating "false" accounts for the purpose of bolstering her ratings on YouTube.
Ryan's littleloca character was based, according to her own account in various interviews, on Mexican-American girls in her neighborhood that she grew up with, amalgamating them into "Little Loca", an 18 year old Latina attending college.
Apparently, many of the viewers of the littleloca blogs did not realize at first that this character was fictional. Ever since she was "outed", though, as a "white girl" playing a Latina (even though it was never actually a secret), Ryan has to face complaints and accusations in comments from YouTube users that her portrayal is not realistic. Many people also accuse her of being a sell-out because of her constant persuasion to her audience to leave YouTube.com for LiveVideo.com due to her contract with LiveVideo.com.
Crispin Glover has appeared in several littleloca blogs, as well as other movie and TV actors, and artists.
Ryan's first channel, stevieryan, was used mainly for posting more "arty" content, such as videos edited to appear like silent films or "found" home movie footage.
The Ooolalaa channel was used for posting Ryan's own versions of music videos, with lip-syncing to pop music such as Roxanne by The Police. But it also included blogs of a fictional character "Brigitte", who was apparently a French student living in the U.S.
The channel TheRealParis was started when celebrities, including Paris Hilton, started creating their own promotional accounts on YouTube. Ryan posted parodies about Hilton in response to this trend. Eventually, the account started containing Ryan's numerous new characters, such as "Jamie Lynn" who is a parody based on home videos of Britney Spears, a young man who admires Michael Jackson and dances the "moon-walk", and a toddler with a penchant for expletives.
At the start of 2007, Ryan began accusing YouTube of treating her unfairly, and started posting her videos concurrently on her stevieryan channel at an alternative service Live Video.
Another channel at Live Video, Faye006, lists stevieryan as "crew member". The popular Faye006 videos usually consist of satirical comments on video blogging and related topics presented by a hand-puppet and a voice speaking in falsetto. In one of the videos, Ryan appeared to operate this puppet. This has led to the unconfirmed rumor among some of the viewers that Faye006 may be yet another channel of Ryan's.
Ryan was named one of four hosts of the 2007 CW Network reality series "Online Nation," which will feature Internet video clips.
Ryan was the female lead in Billy Idol's 2005 single "Scream" music video
Ryan appeared in the 2003 Hilary Duff music video So Yesterday .
Ryan has been said to have dated actor Drake Bell, who has appeared in her videos.
