Maturing Youth

Jacob Tremblay ( TROM-blay; born October 5, 2006) is a Canadian actor. Beginning his career as a child actor in the 2010s, he expanded to voice acting in mainstream animated media and mature roles in independent films. Tremblay first gained recognition for his role as a child born in captivity in Room (2015), for which he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer and became the youngest nominee for the Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. Continued recognition came from his roles as a child with Treacher Collins Syndrome in the drama Wonder (2017) and a naive sixth grader in the comedy Good Boys (2019). Tremblay has taken on voice roles as Damian Wayne / Robin in Harley Quinn (2019), the title characters in Luca (2021) and Orion and the Dark (2024), which earned him an Emmy Award, Flounder in The Little Mermaid (2023), and Curtis in Wildwood (2026). He returned to live-action projects with more mature roles in the biographical crime films Sovereign (2025), which earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination, and Unabomber (2026), in which he portrayed the titular domestic terrorist.