During this time, he also starred in several made-for-TV movies like Smart House, The Luck of the Irish and Lansky. From 2010 to 2012, Merriman portrayed Ian Thomas on ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars and in 2012 he also starred on an episode of Hawaii Five-0. In 2004, Ryman Merriman married a woman named Micol Duncan, but the couple divorced after seven years of marriage in 2011. In 2013, Ryan Merriman announced his engagement to fellow Pretty Little Liars star, Kristen McMullen. Merriman popped the question in New Zealand and followed up the proposal with a giant fireworks display. Merriman does not have any children.