Jason Weaver

Jason Weaver is an American actor and singer who was born in Chicago in 1979 and started performing as a child, with one of his earliest screen roles coming on Oprah Winfrey's 1990 series Brewster Place. He played a preteen Michael Jackson in the 1992 miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream and went on to lead the sitcoms Thea and Smart Guy, playing Marcus Henderson on the latter. He sang as the young Simba in Disney's 1994 animated film The Lion King. His movie work includes Drumline (2002) with Nick Cannon and The Ladykillers (2004), and he took a supporting part in ATL. Weaver is a recording artist as well: his debut album Love Ambition came out on Motown Records in 1995, and he later appeared on Chingy's single One Call Away, which reached the top five in the United States. He has also appeared in the television series The Chi.