Jeremy Shada

**Jaden Jeremy Shada** (born January 21, 1997) also known as **Jeremy Shada** is an American actor, voice actor, and musician. He portrays Reggie in the Netflix series, Julie and the Phantoms.

## Biography

Jaden Jeremy Shada was born on January 21, 1997 in Boise, Idaho. He began acting at the age of seven soon after moving to Los Angeles with his family. He has two older brothers, Josh and Zack and they both are actors. He also has a younger sister.  He was inspired to act by his older brother Zack Shada, who's an actor himself. Due to his acting career, Shada was homeschooled, having graduated high school in May 2013.

His first live-action theatrical role was as Young Kurt Diamond in *No Rules*. He has appeared in additional live-action and voice acting roles, such as playing young Charlie Pace in childhood flashbacks on *Lost*. In 2009, Shada booked the role of Finn in the Cartoon Network series *Adventure Time*, his older brother Zack Shada having voiced the character 3 years before.

In 2012, Shada joined the cast of Nick Cannon's sketch-comedy series, *Incredible Crew*. In June 2012, to promote *Incredible Crew'*s 2013 premiere, Cartoon Network released a music rap video titled "Running Errands with My Mom" which features Shada performing and rapping the lyrics. The video has since generated over one million views.

From 2016-2018, Shada voiced Lance for the American animated web television series *Voltron: Legendary Defender.*

He voiced characters in Team America, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, ParaNorman, Surf’s Up 2, Ralph Breaks the Internet and Cookie Run: Kingdom. His on-screen credits include Miracle Run and No Rules.

### Julie and the Phantoms

In June 2019, Shada decided to audition for Julie and the Phantoms, specifically for the role of Reggie Peters. All Shada knew of the potential series and role was from the one scene given in the audition script— that it was "a Netflix show, Kenny Ortega was doing it, and the character would sing and play bass and was really funny." The chance to work with Kenny Ortega and implement musical skills was appealing to Shada.

Unlike other audition processes Shada has experienced which were more lengthy, Shada's first audition was in front of Kenny and the showrunners, Dan Cross and Dave Hoge. After that meeting with them in person, Shada had to sing a song and do the acting scene, and had to sing and play bass at the same time.

Shada performed a rendition of “Youngblood” by 5 Seconds of Summer. He has stated the song was one he enjoyed, and was chosen because it consisted of a cool driving bass line and vocals. A couple of days later, they called Shada to do a call back.

Shada was amongst the 35 other hopefuls who were auditioning for the lead four characters. At some point in the auditioning process, Shada was paired with Owen Joyner and Charlie Gillespie ( Alex and Luke, respectively). At a later time, the trio was paired with Madison Reyes, who would play the titular character, Julie Molina.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season One

* Wake Up - Reggie
* Bright - Reggie
* Flying Solo - Reggie
* I Got the Music - Reggie
* The Other Side of Hollywood - Reggie
* Finally Free - Reggie
* Edge of Great - Reggie
* Unsaid Emily - Reggie
* Stand Tall - Reggie

## Trivia

* On March 8, 2020 Jeremy married Carolynn Rowland. Victoria Caro, Charlie Gillespie, Owen Patrick Joyner and director of Julie and the Phantoms, Kenny Ortega all attended his wedding.
* He is best known as the voices of Finn the Human from *Adventure Time* and Lance McClain in *Voltron: Legendary Defender.*
* He did all his voice recordings for Finn the Human from *Adventure Time* all throughout his teen years.
* Is the bass player and secondary vocalist in the rock band **Make Out Monday.**
* Shada worked with **Zac Efron** on a movie called *Miracle Run* right before he was cast in *High School Musical* (which was directed by **Kenny Ortega**).
* Shada and his wife Carolynn have two dogs (**Finn** and **Jake**). They’re named after the two main characters from *Adventure Time.* They’re both male Cavachons (which is half Bichon Frise, and half King Cavalier Charles Spaniel).
* Madison Reyes had a fangirl moment when she first met her future co-star Jeremy because she is a huge fan of his works as Finn the Human in *Adventure Time* (2010) and Lance McClain in *Voltron: Legendary Defender* (2016).
* He shares the same birthday as one of his co-stars Booboo Stewart who plays Willie in *Julie and the Phantoms* but Booboo Stewart is three years older than Jeremy.
* In 2014 when he was 17 years old he announced that he's the bass player in a rock band called *Make Out Monday.*

## External Links

* Jeremy Shada on Wikipedia
* Jeremy Shada on IMDb
* Jeremy Shada at AllMovie
* Jeremy Shada on Twitter
* Jeremy Shada on Instagram
* Jeremy Shada on TikTok

## References

1. ↑ Jeremy Shada Biography
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Phantoms of 'Julie and the Phantoms' on How They Became a Real-Life Band
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Get To Know 'Julie & The Phantoms' Star Jeremy Shada with 10 Fun Facts!
4. ↑ 17 Facts You Didn't Know about Julie and the Phantoms | Netflix Futures
5. ↑ January 21 Birthdays
6. ↑ Jeremy Shada