Jay Silverheels Jay Silverheels Jay Silverheels (born Harold Preston Smith, May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was a Mohawk Canadian actor and He was well known for his role as Tonto, the faithful Indian companion of the Lone Ranger in the long-running American western television series "The Lone Ranger". Silverheels was born Harold Preston Smith in Canada, on the Six Nations of the Grand River, near Hagersville, Ontario. He was a grandson of Mohawk Chief A.G. Smith and Mary Wedge, and one of the 11 children of Captain Alexander George Edwin Smith, MC, Cayuga, and his wife Mabel Phoebe Doxtater, also
Jay Ryan (actor) in the New Zealand comedy/drama series "Go Girls". In 2011, he joined the cast of the Australian comedy/drama series "Offspring". Also in 2011, Ryan guest starred on the American science fiction series "Terra Nova", playing a murderer. For this role, Ryan utilised an American accent. In 2012, Ryan was cast as the male lead in the CW's "Beauty & the Beast" pilot. The CW officially announced the series at the May 2012 Up Fronts in New York. Ryan and Dianna Fuemana had a daughter in 2013. Jay Ryan (actor) Jay Ryan (born August 29, 1981) is a New Zealand actor.