Zachary Adam Gordon is an American actor. Gordon began his professional acting career at the age of eight and as a child came to prominence playing Greg Heffley in the first three films of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series. Transitioning into acting roles as an adult, he has played Tate Wilson in Good Trouble and Jason Cohen in Dead of Summer.
Gordon has made multiple television appearances on programs such as How I Met Your Mother and All of Us. He has also appeared in the 2008 pilot of Desperate Housewives, plus two other episodes, and in two episodes of 24, which aired in January 2009. He also appeared in three episodes as a guest star on Last Man Standing, where he played Tim's daughter's boyfriend. His film credits include Sex and Death 101, Lower Learning, the Garry Marshall film Georgia Rule, The Brothers Bloom, as young Bloom, and in ' and many others. Gordon has been credited with numerous voice over roles including Brad Spolyt in The Chubbchubbs Save Xmas, Ricky Garcia in Project Gilroy, San San in Nick Jr.'s Ni Hao, Kai-Lan and The Mighty B! He is a series regular as the voice of Gil in the Nickelodeon series Bubble Guppies. Gordon has had voice cameo roles as Baby Melman in the animated film ', Kotaro in Afro Samurai: Resurrection, and young Tony Stark in The Super Hero Squad Show. In 2010, he played Greg Heffley in the film Diary of a Wimpy Kid. In 2011, he voiced Papi Jr. in Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 and as Paws in Disney's The Search for Santa Paws. In June 2010, 20th Century Fox announced a sequel to Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Gordon returned as Greg Heffley and the film, ', was released on March 25, 2011. In 2011, Gordon provided voices for Charlie Brown, Linus and Franklin on the comedy show Robot Chicken as well as Gil in Bubble Guppies. In 2012, he reprised the role of Greg Heffley in ', but for the fourth film, , he was replaced by Jason Drucker. In October 2013, Gordon was chosen to host a miniseries for Nintendo, titled Skylander's Boomcast, on YouTube channel SkylandersGame, reviewing and talking about the video game seriesSkylanders. Additional films for 2013 included The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and a role as Pete Kidder in Walden Media's and Hallmark Channel's Pete's Christmas.
