Biography
Date of Birth
10 December 1986, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name
Joshua Michael Peck
Nickname
Pudge Master Flex
Joshman
Snowday
Height
6' (1.83 m)
Mini Biography
Joshua Michael Peck is an American actor, comedian, and YouTuber. Peck began his career as a child actor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and had an early role on The Amanda Show from 2000 to 2002. Peck rose to prominence for his role as Josh Nichols alongside Drake Bell's character in the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh from 2004 to 2007, and in its two television films in 2006 and 2008. He then acted in films such as Mean Creek (2004), Drillbit Taylor (2008), The Wackness (2008), ATM (2012), Red Dawn (2012), Battle of the Year (2013), Danny Collins (2015), and Take the 10 (2017) and played the main role in the Disney+ original series Turner & Hooch, a continuation of the 1989 movie Turner & Hooch. Peck provided the voice of Eddie in the Ice Age franchise since Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), and voiced Casey Jones in the Nickelodeon animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012-2017). He also starred with John Stamos in the Fox comedy series Grandfathered (2015-2016). In 2017, Peck started a comedic lifestyle YouTube channel, Shua Vlogs, featuring his wife Paige O'Brien, David Dobrik, and many of the Vlogsquad members.
Trivia
Got his start by performing stand-up comedy at Caroline's Comedy Club for the Audrey Hepburn foundation.
Has been doing stand-up comedy since the age of 8.
He plays the piano.
Had a pet fish named Beefy.
Performed in musical theater with the New York-based children's theater TADA.
Used to play ice hockey in his spare time.
Was born in Hell's Kitchen. A neighborhood of New York City that includes the area between 34th Street and 57th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River.
His influences are Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby and his favorite actor is Ben Kingsley.
He used to drive an '87 Mercedes.
For the first fourteen years of his life, he lived in New York City with his mother.
As a child, he would watch cartoons and sitcoms on TV and started to emulate them.
Has had asthma since childhood.
Peck never met his father, who died in 2013. In his memoir "Happy People Are Annoying", Peck revealed that his father was a well-to-do, 62-year-old married co-worker of his mother, and his birth was the result of an extramarital affair. Peck's father made a large one-time payment to his mother to conceal his paternity. Peck had never seen a picture of his father until his 20s, and has never met his paternal half-siblings.
He is very close with his mother.
He and his mother shared small one-bedroom apartments in New York City.
Has known his Drake & Josh (2004) costar, Drake Bell, since 1999 when they were both cast in The Amanda Show (1999) together. Although it has often been reported they are close friends, Peck downplayed this in his 2022 memoir, saying they were never particularly close and barely spoke to each other after their show ended.
Has dog named "Monster.".
Used to spend time making hip hop beats and studio work with upcoming artists.
Was ranked #19 on Moviefone's 'The 25 Hottest Actors Under 25'(2008).
He was the beat boxer on Drake Bell's song Circles.
Has worked twice with Zena Grey in two films: Snow Day (2000) and Max Keeble's Big Move (2001).
His mother just moved back to New York a week and a half ago. So now he's learning to cope on his own. [March 2006]
Lost a considerable amount of weight thanks to karate, yoga, lots of salads and just plain adolescence. He has shed 40 pounds since Mean Creek wrapped last year and is working hard to drop another 40. [June 2005]
Peck is Josh's mother's surname. The family name had originally been Peckerman. Josh's maternal grandparents, Jack Peckerman and Mae Weinberger, were both from Jewish families from Eastern Europe (Poland and Russia). His biological father was also Jewish.
The Apple Podcast app confused him for the Hysteria51 guest Joe Peck.
Quotes
It doesn't matter what you look like really though, it is who you are that matters of course.
