Adam Wylie

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* Karen Wylie (mother)

**Adam Augustus Wylie** (born May 23, 1984) is an American actor, magician and a former Crayola spokesman. Wylie is known most for playing Zack Brock, the youngest son of Sheriff Brock's children, on *Picket Fences* from 1992 to 1996.

## Early life

Wylie was born in San Dimas, California, the son of Leonard and Karen Wylie. He is one of five children, including brothers Eric, Ben, Aaron, and sister, Tai. He started his acting career at the age of four in a candy commercial. He attended Upland Christian Schools in Upland, California and Condit Elementary in Claremont, California.

## Career

### Voice-over work

By the age of nine, he was busy with voice-over work, including the voice of young Prince Derek in *The Swan Princess* (1994), and David in *All Dogs Go to Heaven 2* (1996). He then lent his voice to many animated series, including *Dennis the Menace* as the title character (1993–94), *Hey Arnold!* as Curly (1996–2002), *Crayola Kids Adventures*, *Napoleon* as the title character (1997), *The King and I* (1999) as Louis Leonowens, and Walt Disney Television Animation's pilot *Kitty's Dish* (as Josh). Wylie's voice credits also include *Batman Beyond*, *Pepper Ann* as Crash, *As Told By Ginger* as Ian Richton, *Midnight Club II*, Jimmy Olsen in the 2007 direct-to-DVD movie, *Superman: Doomsday*, the roles of Fred Nerk, Nigel Thrall and Bananas B on *American Dragon: Jake Long*, *Avatar: The Last Airbender*, *Ben 10*, and the character Justin in *The Easter StoryKeepers*.

He also starred as Mike Fowler in Focus on the Family's *The Last Chance Detectives* audio cases (2004).

Wylie also starred as the voice of Brainiac 5 and Colossal Boy in the animated television show *Legion of Super-Heroes* and the voice of Ulraj in the *Secret Saturdays*.

Wylie voiced the lead role in Sir Malcolm and the Missing Prince, the first series in Lamplighter Publishing's new radio drama Lamplighter Theatre. This radio drama is a two-hour production in which Wylie plays the role of the prince.

He also voices Ryan Cummings in the popular Christian audio drama series *Adventures in Odyssey*.

From 2012 to 2013, Wylie voiced Tritannus, the main antagonist in the fifth season of *Winx Club*.

### Television and film work

In 1993, he voiced Timmy and Chris on cartoon Christmas movie *Precious Moments Timmy's Special Delivery*. In 1994, he did one of the characters on cartoon Easter movie *Precious Moments: Simon the Lamb*. Wylie first became widely known as Zack Brock, the youngest of Sheriff Brock's three children in the television series *Picket Fences* from 1992 to 1996. This was followed by appearances in many other television programs, including as a series regular in *Love and Marriage* as Max, *Ed* as David Mirsky (2001), and *Gilmore Girls* as Brad Langford (2001–2002), he played Garfield in The Biggest Fan (2002) and as a guest star in *7th Heaven* as Marvin, *Sliders* as Trevor, *Touched by an Angel* as Andy Erskine, *Judging Amy* as Nicholas Binkow, *MTV Undressed* as Owen, *Entourage*, *Living Single*, *Monk*, *CSI: Miami*, and *Veronica Mars*.

Wylie was cast as Garfield (Debbie Warden's older brother) in the Dream Street film *The Biggest Fan*.

Wylie also appeared in the made for TV movies *Under Wraps* as Gilbert, *Out on a Limb*, *Balloon Farm* as Charles, and *Michael Landon, the Father I Knew* as the best friend to the television star's teenage son.

Wylie's first motion picture appearance was in *Child's Play 2* (1990), which was followed by roles in films including *Kindergarten Cop* as Larry (1990), *Santa With Muscles* (1996), *Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror* as Ezekial (1998), *Breaking Free* as Billy (1995), *Cutaway* as Cal (2000), *Can of Worms* as Nick (1999), *Flying Virus* as Adam (2001), *Daybreak* as Newton Warner (2001), *Rebound* (2005), and *American Pie Presents: Band Camp* as Guy (2005). He also starred in several Crayola Kids' Club-produced movies.

Wylie played Mikey in the 2009 skateboarding film *Street Dreams*.

In 2009, Wylie was seen performing card tricks & coin tricks on syndicated magic show "Masters of Illusion."

In 2010 he had a small part as a cop opposite Kelly Monaco's character Sam McCall on *General Hospital*.

Also in 2012, he guest starred as Andy the Android on Disney Channel's *Shake It Up: Made in Japan* and was in love with a Talking Toilet he named ToyToy.

### Musical theatre

In 2002, Wylie appeared as Jack in Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning revival of *Into the Woods* on Broadway.  His role in *Into the Woods* was meta-referenced on *Gilmore Girls* as being done by his character in that series, Brad Langford.

He has also appeared frequently in regional theatre, including in *Camelot* as Merlyn-Tom-Morgan at the North Shore Music Theatre (Massachusetts) in 2005, *Big River* as Huck Finn, *110 in the Shade* as Jimmy Curry in 2004 at the Pasadena Playhouse (California), *On the Town* as Chip in 2003 at the Gateway Playhouse, Bellport, New York, *Footloose* as Willard, *Precious Sons* as Freddie Jr., *House Arrest* as Todd, and *Beauty and the Beast*, as Chip. He also played Leo Bloom in a regional production of Mel Brooks' The Producers (musical) at Gateway Playhouse.

February 21, 2007 marked Wylie's debut in the musical *Wicked* at the Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles. He starred opposite such stars as Eden Espinosa, Jenna Leigh Green, Megan Hilty, and Carol Kane. He played his final performance on December 30, 2007 along with Espinosa and Kane, and was replaced by his understudy, Michael Drolet.

## Honors and awards

Wylie won Young Artist Awards for *Picket Fences*, and *Dennis the Menace*, and Hollywood Reporter YoungStar Awards for *Picket Fences* twice. He has been nominated for Young Artist Awards for *Under Wraps*, and *All Dogs Go To Heaven 2*, and YoungStar Awards for *Balloon Farm*, and *Michael Landon, The Father I Knew*.

## References

1. ↑ Adam Wylie Biography (1984–) filmreference.com
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Adam Wylie's interests go beyond 'Picket Fences' but that's where his heart is", *Los Angeles Times* (January 8, 1995).
3. ↑ Palka, Chloe (October 30, 2019). "Celebrating 25 Years of 'The Swan Princess' (Exclusive Interviews)". https://www.hollywoodnewssource.com/swan-princess-25-years/.
4. ↑ "Adam Wylie Broadway" playbillvault.com, accessed February 21, 2016
5. ↑ Gans, Andrew. "Nudity Warning — Not the Nudity — Removed from North Shore's 'Camelot'" playbill.com, September 9, 2005
6. ↑ Kendt, Rob. "Sunny, chance of rain" *Los Angeles Times*, June 28, 2004
7. ↑ Klein, Alvin. "Review. Those Three Sailors, Lost on Shore Again" *The New York Times*, August 10, 2003

## External links

* Profile at UK Movies.com
* Profile at Filmbug.com
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