Daryl Sabara

**Daryl Christopher Sabara** (born June 14, 1992)[1] is an American actor and voice actor, known for playing Juni Cortez in the *Spy Kids* film series, as well as for a variety of television and film appearances, including *Generator Rex*, *Wizards of Waverly Place*, *Father of the Pride*, *The Polar Express*, *Keeping Up with the Steins*, *Halloween*, *World's Greatest Dad*, *Grimm*, and *America's Most Talented Kids* (on which he was a judge).

## Early life[edit]

Sabara was born in Los Angeles County, California. His mother's maiden name is Krebs.[1] He graduated from West Torrance High School in 2010.[2] He has a fraternal twin brother, Evan, who is also a voice actor. He is of Russian Jewish descent from his mother and Polish from his father, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.[3][4] Sabara began performing with the regional ballet company, South Bay Ballet.[5]

## Career[edit]

Sabara began acting during the mid-1990s, appearing on episodes of *Murphy Brown*, *Life's Work*, and *Will and Grace* before being cast as Juni Cortez in the *Spy Kids* series of family films, which became popular among pre-teen audiences.

Sabara provided the voice of Hunter in *Father of the Pride*. He has appeared in episodes of the television series *Weeds*, *House*, *Dr. Vegas*, and was one of the judges on *America's Most Talented Kids*. Sabara also voiced the main character, Hero Boy, in the 2004 animated version of *The Polar Express*. He then played a Jewish young boy trying to have a nice Bar Mitzvah in *Keeping Up with the Steins* (formerly known as *Lucky 13*), which received a limited release on May 12, 2006. He also guest starred in the Criminal Minds episode, "P911" where he played as a sexually molested child. He also provided the voice for Rex in *Generator Rex*.

He next appeared in the films *Her Best Movie* and the interactive DVD *Choose Your Own Adventure*, played Ben on *The Last Chance Detectives* radio dramas by *Adventures in Odyssey* and *Focus on the Family*,[6] and also appeared as school bully Wesley Rhoades in Rob Zombie's *Halloween*. He then played Irwin in the theater play *The Catskills Sonata*, about a young Jewish busboy in the late 1950s.

In 2003, Sabara made a guest appearance as the character Owen on an episode of *Friends*, during which Matthew Perry's character Chandler accidentally reveals to Owen that he is adopted. He also gained a recurring role in the Disney Channel sitcom *Wizards of Waverly Place* as T.J. Taylor, a wizard who ignores the rules and uses magic the way he wants, often getting him into trouble. He was also in *The Boondocks* as the voice of Butch Magnus Milosevic in the episode Shinin'. He appeared in two episodes of *The Batman* first as Harris, a middle schooler then as Scorn, the sidekick of the villain Wrath. Both roles were opposite his brother, who played "Robin".

He costarred in the 2009 film *April Showers*, a movie written and directed by a survivor of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. He played Kyle, a misanthropic teenager in *World's Greatest Dad*, with Robin Williams, and Peter Cratchit in the 2009 film adaptation of *A Christmas Carol*. He appeared in the comedy series *Easy To Assemble*, where he played a character named George. In 2010, he appeared in the movie *Machete*, as well as the MTV movie *Worst. Prom. Ever.* which premiered May 10. In 2012, he co-starred in *John Carter* as Edgar Rice Burroughs.

He portrayed the recurring role of Tim Scottson in seven episodes (spanning from 2005–2012) of *Weeds*.

In 2014 he starred alongside Chloë Grace Moretz in the off-Broadway play *The Library* directed by Steven Soderbergh.