Jonah Bobo

Jonah Bobo, born in Manhattan in 1997 and raised on Roosevelt Island in New York, is an American musician and a former child actor. His first screen role came in The Best Thief in the World, and he co-starred in Around the Bend (2004) as the youngest member of a four-generation family. He is best known for playing Danny Budwing in Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Robbie Weaver in Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), and for supplying the voice of Austin the Kangaroo in Nickelodeon's animated series The Backyardigans, which he did from 2004 to 2013. His other credits include Choke (2008), appearances on 30 Rock and Royal Pains, the play Seussical, Jr., and Disconnect (2012), his last film. He also composes and writes for the theater, earning distinctions from the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and the Richard Rodgers Award Foundation, and his albums include Newgrass Suite (2021), Rainbow (2023), and Charm School (2025).