Joshua Ryan Zuckerman (born April 1, 1985) is an American actor.
He is known for playing Mark Cullin in the science fiction TV series ''
Kyle XY'', Eddie Orlofsky in ''
Desperate Housewives
''Desperate Housewives'' is an American comedy-drama soap opera television series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry, Cherry Productions. It aired for eight seasons on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from Octobe ...
'' and Nate Marlowe in the comedy series ''
Significant Mother''. He also had a recurring role as Max Miller in
the CW drama ''
90210''. He voiced the lead role of Pony in the
Nickelodeon original animated series ''
It's Pony''.
Early life
Zuckerman was born and raised in
Los Altos, California, into a family of five children. He attended Bullis-Purisima Elementary School there. He began formally acting at the age of ten, with a series of roles at the nearby Bus Barn Theater with the Los Altos Youth Theater company. He moved to
Los Angeles to pursue an acting career after finishing the seventh grade at
Egan Junior High School, where he had been elected student body president. He is of
Jewish descent.
He attended
The Buckley School in
Sherman Oaks. In 2003 he attended
Princeton University, where he was a member of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, where he earned the pledge name "Checkers". After his freshman year he did not return to Princeton, deciding instead to focus on his acting career.
Career
Zuckerman made his professional on-camera debut in 2000 opposite
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and
Drew Carey in the
Disney Channel
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musical fantasy ''
Geppetto'', then enjoyed guest roles on the TV series ''
NYPD Blue
''NYPD Blue'' is an American police procedural television series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble c ...
'' and ''
Once and Again
''Once and Again'' is an American family drama television series that aired on ABC from September 21, 1999, to April 15, 2002. It depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz a ...
''.
Zuckerman's assignments continued during his enrollment as a student at
Princeton University, though over time he began to increasingly emphasize big-screen work, notably with supporting roles in the
Ben Affleck,
James Gandolfini holiday comedy ''
Surviving Christmas'' (2004) and the
Evan Rachel Wood dark comedy ''
Pretty Persuasion'' (2005). In 2008, Zuckerman appeared in a multi-episode arc, as Mark, on the
ABC Family
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series ''
Kyle XY''.
Later that year, Zuckerman signed for one of his first starring roles, as a teen who ventures out on a cross-country road trip, along with two friends, to meet a girl he's been chatting with online and lose his virginity to her, in the teen-oriented sex comedy-road movie ''
Sex Drive''.
He played Eddie Orlofsky on ''
Desperate Housewives
''Desperate Housewives'' is an American comedy-drama soap opera television series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry, Cherry Productions. It aired for eight seasons on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from Octobe ...
''. Zuckerman had a recurring role in
the CW series ''
90210'' as Naomi's love interest, Max Miller.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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1985 births
Living people
21st-century American male actors
Male actors from the San Francisco Bay Area
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
Princeton University alumni