Joey Dedio

Joey Dedio is an American actor. In his twenties he appeared on the NBC soap Another World and voiced Daniel LaRusso in the television version of The Karate Kid. He voiced Wheeler in Captain Planet and the Planeteers and contributed to Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, with other voice work in Extreme Ghostbusters and Denver, the Last Dinosaur. He later worked on Sunset Beach and made guest appearances on Law and Order and Chicago Hope, and he acted off Broadway in productions such as SoHo Reps Skin. His film credits include Trick (1999), A Good Night to Die (2003), and Strays; in 2004 he took a starring role in Bomb the System and served as an associate producer. He wrote his first screenplay, Downtown: A Street Tale, completed in 2006, and later wrote and starred in Tio Papi (2013), earning a Best Actor nomination at the Imagen Awards.