Devin D. Ratray is an American actor, producer and writer. He is known for his role as Buzz McCallister in Home Alone and , as well as the films Nebraska and Blue Ruin. His television work included The Tick.
Early life and education
Ratray was born in New York City, the son of Ann Willis and Peter Ratray, both actors. He started acting at the age of nine years in the movie Where Are the Children?. He starred as a youth in various other programs and movies until his acting pinnacle in 1990 as Buzz McCallister, the bullying older brother of Macaulay Culkin's character, Kevin, in Home Alone and . He graduated from New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in 1994.
Career
Ratray landed minor roles in Little Monsters, Dennis the Menace and an episode as Martin in The Enforcers. Another film role was The Prince and Me as the computer-obsessed roommate of "Eddy," the royal Prince of Denmark. He was a regular improv actor on MTV's Damage Control, notably as a director of an erotic film called Crazy Motor Hos, in which he was dressed as a naval captain. Ratray appeared in the September 29, 2006 episode of Law & Order, "Avatar", as the mentally ill murderer Richard Elam. He later portrayed an antagonist in an episode of . He was a lisping doctor in the movie Slippery Slope. He performed as Jimmy Link in Serial. Ratray appeared in the 2009 film Surrogates as Bobby Saunders. Variety said "Ratray gets good mileage out of his role as a computer whiz too proud of his corpulent geekiness to consider a more glamorous substitute." In 2009, he was also a guest star on the fifth season of Supernatural in the episode "The Real Ghost Busters". In late 2007, a documentary film crew followed Ratray's attempts to win the heart of US Secretary of StateCondoleezza Rice. He used 'love disks' -- love letters set to music and images—to serenade her, and traveled from New York, to Alabama, Denver, Palo Alto and Washington DC to court her. The resulting film, Courting Condi, was due for international release in fall 2008. In 2012, Ratray played a mutual funds manager trapped in a Wall Street elevator with eight strangers, in the suspense thriller Elevator. Ratray played Cole in the 2013 film Nebraska, Ben Gaffney in the 2013 film Blue Ruin and made an appearance in the 2013 film R.I.P.D..
