Ryan James Eggold is an American actor. He is best known for playing Ryan Matthews on the CW teen drama series 90210, Tom Keen on the NBC crime drama series The Blacklist and its spin-off series The Blacklist: Redemption, and hospital director Dr. Max Goodwin on the NBC medical drama series New Amsterdam, which began in September 2018 and concluded in January 2023.

The Blacklist is an American crime thriller television series created by Jon Bokenkamp and developed by John Eisendrath. It stars James Spader as Raymond Reddington, a former US Naval Intelligence officer turned one of the Most Wanted fugitives who cooperates with the FBI in hunting down threatening criminals on a special list of his called the "Blacklist". The series also stars Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold, Amir Arison, Hisham Tawfiq, and Harry Lennix. The Blacklist was produced by Sony Pictures Television, Universal Television and Davis Entertainment. John Eisendrath, John Davis and John Fox served as executive producers for the entire run of the series; its creator Jon Bokenkamp also executive produced the series for the first eight seasons. Other executive producers include director Joe Carnahan and Spader.