It has been quite a journey for Ross Butler, who dropped out of his engineering degree course and made the bold decision to move to Los Angeles 10 years ago, when he was 20.
Exuding a quiet confidence throughout our telephone conversation, the Singapore-born, Virginia-raised actor says: "I didn't know I wanted to be an actor. I just wanted to change the environment I was in because I felt stuck and just really unhappy."
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