Joseph Ashton (actor)

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Joseph Ashton
Born	Joseph Ashton Valencia November 18, 1986 (1986-11-18) (age 21) Cherokee, California, U.S.A.
Years active	1994 — present

Joseph Ashton (born Joseph Ashton Valencia on November 18, 1986) is an American film and voice actor.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Personal life
- 1.2 Career
2 Selected filmography
3 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Personal life

Ashton was born in California; both of his parents have Cherokee ancestors. His father is a California Highway Patrol officer and his older brother is Mathew Valencia, a voice actor. At his high school, Diamond Bar High School, Ashton was an honor roll student, a captain of his club soccer team, a starting player on the varsity soccer team, and participated in the Olympic Developmental Soccer Team program at the regional level in England.

He is currently attending university, where he is majoring in film studies. Joseph is also an active member in the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, and continues to play soccer for his college team.

[edit] Career

Ashton's film debut was in the 1994 remake of The Little Rascals. He appeared in many television productions throughout the 1990s, and notably starred in the title role of the 1997 film, The Education of Little Tree, a well-reviewed low-budget film about a 1930s-era boy discovering his Native American heritage. Ashton has twice won the Young Artist Award.

Ashton is the English language voice of Otto Rocket on Nickelodeon's Rocket Power cartoon series, and also recently appeared in Walt Disney Productions' direct-to-video remake of Where the Red Fern Grows, playing the main character, "Billy Coleman".

Ashton is the now an intern at Warner Brother Records.

[edit] Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role
2003	Where the Red Fern Grows	Billy Coleman
1998	Slappy and the Stinkers	Sonny
1997	The Education of Little Tree	Little Tree
1994	The Little Rascals	Rascal