Daniel Kyri portrays firefighter Darren Ritter on the NBC drama “Chicago Fire.”

Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Kyri is a classically trained actor with deep theater roots. Named one of 2020’s “50 People Who Really Perform for Chicago” by Newcity, a Windy City Times “30 Under 30” honoree and Chicago Reader’s best actor of 2017, Kyri has made quite a name for himself on the stage. The multi-hyphenate stepped into film and wrote, directed, produced and starred in the online miniseries “The T.” The show follows a trans woman and a Black queer man (played by Kyri) who discovers he is HIV positive.

Kyri’s screen credits include “Night’s End" for Shudder, co-starring Michael Shannon; Freeform’s “The Thing About Harry”; and Stephen Cone’s award-winning film “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party.”

Kyri’s theater credits include the world premiere production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “Ms. Blakk for President”; “Objects in the Mirror” (The Goodman Theatre), for which he was nominated for a 2017 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Actor in a Principal Role - Play; “Monster” (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); “Tug of War: Foreign Fire" and "Tug of War: Civil Strife” (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); and “Moby Dick” (Lookingglass Theatre Company).