Zachary Gordon

Zachary Gordon
Zachary Gordon
	Gordon in 2018
Born	Zachary Adam Gordon; February 15, 1998; Oak Park, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actor, voice actor
Years active	2006–present

Zachary Adam Gordon (born February 15, 1998) is an American actor. Gordon began his professional acting career at the age of eight and as a child came to prominence playing Greg Heffley in the first three films of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series. Transitioning into acting roles as an adult, he has played Tate Wilson in Good Trouble and Jason Cohen in Dead of Summer.

Early life

Gordon was born in Oak Park, California, to Linda and Kenneth Gordon.[1] He has two brothers and was raised in Southern California.[2][3][4] He graduated from a public high school in Oak Park.[1][5][6]

Career

Gordon has made multiple television appearances on programs such as How I Met Your Mother and All of Us.[7] He has also appeared in the 2008 pilot of Desperate Housewives, plus two other episodes, and in two episodes of 24, which aired in January 2009. He also appeared in three episodes as a guest star on Last Man Standing, where he played Tim's daughter's boyfriend.

His film credits include Sex and Death 101, Lower Learning, the Garry Marshall film Georgia Rule (for which he won the "Young Artist Award" for his portrayal of Ethan), The Brothers Bloom, as young Bloom, and in National Treasure: Book of Secrets and many others.

Gordon has been credited with numerous voice over roles including Brad Spolyt in The Chubbchubbs Save Xmas, Ricky Garcia in Project Gilroy, San San in Nick Jr.'s Ni Hao, Kai-Lan and The Mighty B! He is a series regular as the voice of Gil in the Nickelodeon series Bubble Guppies.

Gordon has had voice cameo roles as Baby Melman in the animated film Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Kotaro in Afro Samurai: Resurrection, and young Tony Stark in The Super Hero Squad Show. In 2010, he played Greg Heffley in the film Diary of a Wimpy Kid. In 2011, he voiced Papi Jr. in Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 and as Paws in Disney's The Search for Santa Paws.

In June 2010, 20th Century Fox announced a sequel to Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Gordon returned as Greg Heffley and the film, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, was released on March 25, 2011.[8]

In 2011, Gordon provided voices for Charlie Brown, Linus and Franklin on the comedy show Robot Chicken as well as Gil in Bubble Guppies. In 2012, he reprised the role of Greg Heffley in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, but for the fourth film, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, he was replaced by Jason Drucker. In October 2013, Gordon was chosen to host a miniseries for Nintendo, titled Skylander's Boomcast, on YouTube channel SkylandersGame, reviewing and talking about the video game series Skylanders.[9]

Additional films for 2013 included The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and a role as Pete Kidder in Walden Media's and Hallmark Channel's Pete's Christmas.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
2007	Because I Said So	Little Arthur	Uncredited
	The Chubbchubbs Save Xmas	Brad Spoylt	Short film
	Georgia Rule	Ethan		[10]
	National Treasure: Book of Secrets	Lincoln conspiracy kid		[10]
	Sex and Death 101	Barbeque brat
2008	The Brothers Bloom	Young Bloom
	Four Christmases	Kid #6 in Jump-Jump
	Lower Learning	Frankie Fowler		[11]
	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	Baby Melman (voice)	Cameo	[11]
2009	The Search for Santa Paws	Paws (voice)	Direct to video	[10]
2010	Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Greg Heffley		[11]
2011	Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2	Papi Junior (voice)	Direct to video	[10]
2011	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules	Greg Heffley		[12]
2012	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days	Greg Heffley
	Young Paul Ryan	Young Paul Ryan	Short film
	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Class Clown	Greg Heffley (voice)	Short film
2013	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone	Will
2014	The Boxcar Children	Henry Alden (voice)
2014	Yellowbird	Max (voice)	English dub
2015	Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-cellent Adventure	Rolo (voice)	English dub
2015	Killing Animals	Jeremy
2016	Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV	Young Ravus (voice)	English dub
2016	Norm of the North	Norm Cub (voice)	Uncredited
2017	The Gettysburg Address	Daniel Skelly (voice)
2020	Violet	Bradley		[13]
2020	American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules	Emmett

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2006–2007	All of Us	Richie	2 episodes
2006, 2009	How I Met Your Mother	Stacy's son, Tyler Stinson (Grant), Ted's nephew	3 episodes	[10]
2007, 2011	Robot Chicken	Charlie Brown / Linus (voice)	2 episodes
2008	David's Solution	Little David	Television film
	Desperate Housewives	Little Robin Hood	Episode: "Now You Know"
	MADtv	The Joker	1 episode
	The Mighty B!	Gwen's brother #4 (voice)	Episode: "Bee My Baby"	[11]
	Special Agent Oso	Tyler/Rasheed (voice)	Episodes: "License to Chill/GoldenFly", "The Man with the Golden Retriever/The Chairs Are Not Enough"
2008–2009	Handy Manny	Little Lopart (voice)	Episodes: "Abuelito's Telescope/Little Lopart", "Lyle & Leland Lopart/Blackout on the Block"
2008–2009	Ni Hao, Kai-lan	San San	15 episodes
2008, 2010	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Young Bruce Wayne / Young Aqualad (voice)	3 episodes
2009	24	Eight year old boy	2 episodes
2009	Afro Samurai: Resurrection	Kotaro (voice)	Television film
2011	Childrens Hospital	Cody/Mike	1 episode
2011	Family Guy	Homeless little boy	1 episode
2011–2012	Bubble Guppies	Gil (voice)	Main role
2012	The Haunting Hour: The Series	Seth/Seti	1 episode	[14]
2012	The Unprofessional	Dylan	Television film
2013	Pete's Christmas	Pete Kidder	Television film
2013	Uncle Grandpa	Belly Kid (voice)	1 episode
2014	Last Man Standing	Andrew	3 episodes
2016	Dead of Summer	Jason "Blotter" Cohen	Recurring role
2016	Pals	Himself	Director; television film
2016–2018	Star Wars Rebels	Mart Mattin, Imperial technician #1 (voice)	3 episodes
2017	The Good Doctor	Brandon	Episode: "Apple"
2019–2020	Good Trouble	Tate Wilson	5 episodes
2020	The Resident	Aaron Meuser	Episode: "The Last Shot"

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
2016	Final Fantasy XV	Ravus Nox Fleuret (Young)		[15]
2019	Kingdom Hearts III	Hayner

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2008	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor (Comedy or Musical)	Georgia Rule	Won
2010	Sierra Award	Youth in Film	Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Nominated
2011	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor	Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Nominated
2011	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Ensemble Cast	Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Won
2012	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules	Nominated
2013	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days	Nominated
2013	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Ensemble Cast	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days	Won

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References

Fischer, Sophia (June 26, 2008). "Child actor learning Hollywood ways". The Acorn. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
Baylen, Ashley (August 21, 2012) Top 20 Under 40 Los Angeles- Zachary Gordon – Page1. Shalom Life. Retrieved on March 23, 2014.
Miller, Gerri (February 2012). "Zachary Gordon: The Wimpy Kid". Buzzyquote. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
Lara, Monica (December 9, 2012) Chabad hosts Hanukkah celebration in Oak Park » Ventura County Star. Vcstar.com.
Fischer, Sophia (March 11, 2010). "Oak Park boy stars in 'Wimpy Kid' film". The Acorn. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
http://www.shalomlife.com/culture/17783/top-20-under-40-los-angeles-zachary-gordon/?PageSpeed=noscript
"Zachary Gordon". The New York Times.
Kit, Borys (June 23, 2010). "David Bowers to direct 'Wimpy' sequel". The Hollywood Reporter. e5 Global Media. Archived from the original on June 27, 2010. Retrieved August 28, 2010.
Martin, John Llewellyn (October 4, 2013). "Skylander: Swap Force Video: The Boomcast Premieres". Screen Crush. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
"Zachary Gordon: Credits". TVGuide. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
"Zachary Gordon New York Times Film Credits". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
Hale, Mike (March 24, 2011). "The Sequel to 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid'". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
N'Duka, Amanda (August 9, 2019). "'Veronica Mars' Jason Dohring, Zachary Gordon Cast In 'Violet' Drama Starring Olivia Munn". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
""Wimpy Kid" Zachary Gordon wants his "Mummy" in a new episode of "The Haunting Hour"". Retrieved February 23, 2012.
"Behind the Voice Actors - Final Fantasy XV". Behind the Voice Actors. Archived from the original on January 26, 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2014.

External links

Zachary Gordon on IMDb
Interview with Gordon on Channel One News

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[ref1-1] Fischer, Sophia (June 26, 2008). "Child actor learning Hollywood ways". The Acorn. Retrieved March 11, 2010.

[2] Baylen, Ashley (August 21, 2012) Top 20 Under 40 Los Angeles- Zachary Gordon – Page1. Shalom Life. Retrieved on March 23, 2014.

[ea-3] Miller, Gerri (February 2012). "Zachary Gordon: The Wimpy Kid". Buzzyquote. Retrieved May 2, 2014.

[4] Lara, Monica (December 9, 2012) Chabad hosts Hanukkah celebration in Oak Park » Ventura County Star. Vcstar.com.

[ref2-5] Fischer, Sophia (March 11, 2010). "Oak Park boy stars in 'Wimpy Kid' film". The Acorn. Retrieved March 11, 2010.

[6] ttp://www.shalomlife.com/culture/17783/top-20-under-40-los-angeles-zachary-gordon/?PageSpeed=noscript

[7] "Zachary Gordon". The New York Times.

[8] Kit, Borys (June 23, 2010). "David Bowers to direct 'Wimpy' sequel". The Hollywood Reporter. e5 Global Media. Archived from the original on June 27, 2010. Retrieved August 28, 2010.

[9] Martin, John Llewellyn (October 4, 2013). "Skylander: Swap Force Video: The Boomcast Premieres". Screen Crush. Retrieved January 14, 2014.

[TV_Guide_Credits-10] "Zachary Gordon: Credits". TVGuide. Retrieved February 23, 2012.

[New_York_Times_Film_Credits-11] "Zachary Gordon New York Times Film Credits". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2012.

[The_Sequel_to_'Diary_of_a_Wimpy_Kid'-12] Hale, Mike (March 24, 2011). "The Sequel to 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid'". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2012.

[13] N'Duka, Amanda (August 9, 2019). "'Veronica Mars' Jason Dohring, Zachary Gordon Cast In 'Violet' Drama Starring Olivia Munn". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved September 19, 2019.

[Channel_Guide_Mag-14] ""Wimpy Kid" Zachary Gordon wants his "Mummy" in a new episode of "The Haunting Hour"". Retrieved February 23, 2012.

[15] "Behind the Voice Actors - Final Fantasy XV". Behind the Voice Actors. Archived from the original on January 26, 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2014.