Ryan James Thomas (born 10 June 1984) is an English former actor. He is known for playing the role of Jason Grimshaw on ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2000 until 2016. In 2018, he played Rafael Humphreys in Australian soap opera Neighbours, and won the twenty-second and final series of Celebrity Big Brother. In March 2021, Thomas announced he was quitting acting, after having "really lost the bug for it".