Aidan Gallagher
American actor, musician and activist (born 2003)
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- Aidan Gallagher (born September 18, 2003) is an American actor and musician.
- In 2019, Gallagher began portraying Number Five on the Netflix superhero series The Umbrella Academy , which is his breakthrough role and has brought him widespread recognition and critical acclaim.
- Career Acting Gallagher first appeared in a minor role in a 2013 episode of Modern Family .
- He then landed a major role in Nickelodeon's Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn as Nicky Harper, for which he was nominated Favorite Male TV Star in the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in 2016 and 2017.
- In February 2019, Gallagher began starring in the Netflix superhero series The Umbrella Academy , an adaptation of the comic book series of the same name, as Number Five, a 58-year-old time traveler who is stuck inside the body of his 13-year-old self due to an accidental time jump.
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WikipediaAidan Gallagher (born September 18, 2003) is an American actor and musician. His first major television role was Nicky Harper on the Nickelodeon sitcom Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn. In 2019, Gallagher began portraying Number Five on the Netflix superhero series The Umbrella Academy, which is his breakthrough role and has brought him widespread recognition and critical acclaim. In 2018, Gallagher was appointed as a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador for North America, becoming one of the youngest people to hold the position.
Gallagher first appeared in a minor role in a 2013 episode of Modern Family. He was in the short film You & Me and was in the CBS television pilot Jacked Up, which was not picked up and never aired. He then landed a major role in Nickelodeon's Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn as Nicky Harper, for which he was nominated Favorite Male TV Star in the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in 2016 and 2017. He was in the show for four seasons until it ended in 2018.
In February 2019, Gallagher began starring in the Netflix superhero series The Umbrella Academy, an adaptation of the comic book series of the same name, as Number Five, a 58-year-old time traveler who is stuck inside the body of his 13-year-old self due to an accidental time jump. His portrayal won him critical praise; as The New York Times' reviewer put it, he "carries the show as far as he can". Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that "Gallagher is very good in the tricky part of a fifty-something-year-old man trapped in the body of a schoolboy".
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