Debby Ryan (born May 13, 1993, in Alabama) is an American teen actress, singer, voice actor and screenwriter. Ryan is best known for portraying Bailey Pickett in the Disney Channel Original Series, The Suite Life on Deck which is the spin-off/sequel to The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Ryan started acting in professional theatres at the age of seven, in 2007 she appeared in the Barney & Friends straight-to-DVD film, Barney: Let's Go to the Firehouse and then was discovered in a nationwide search by Disney.