Zackary Arthur

Zackary Arthur is an American actor born in Los Angeles who began working as a child, making his debut in 2014 as Zack Novak in Transparent, the Amazon Studios comedy-drama, with Jeffrey Tambor. He played one of the leads, Sammy Sullivan, in The 5th Wave (2016), acting opposite Chloë Grace Moretz and Nick Robinson for director J Blakeson after competing with hundreds of young actors for the part. In 2015 he took a role in The Half of It, a CBS comedy pilot, and appeared on Grey's Anatomy. His 2017 work included the horror comedy Mom and Dad, in which he played Josh Ryan. He was cast in 2021 as Jake Wheeler, the central character of Chucky, which continues the Child's Play film franchise on television. That part brought a Saturn Award nomination in the younger actor category for a network or cable series, and further seasons followed.