Biography
An everyman actor with a particularly strong flair for comedy, Josh Zuckerman grew up in Los Altos, CA, in a family of five children and began formally acting at the age of ten, with a series of roles at the nearby Los Altos Playhouse. Zuckerman made his professional on-camera debut in 2000, opposite small-screen mainstays
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and
Drew Carey in the Disney Channel's musical fantasy
Geppetto, then enjoyed guest roles on the hit series
NYPD Blue and
Once and Again. Zuckerman's assignments continued during his enrollment as a student at Ivy League institution Princeton University, though over time he began to increasingly emphasize big-screen work, notably with supporting roles in the disastrous
Ben Affleck-
James Gandolfiniholiday comedy
Surviving Christmas (2004) and the
Evan Rachel Wood black comedy
Pretty Persuasion (2005). In 2008, Zuckerman appeared in a multi-episode arc, as Mark, on the ABC Family 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. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide