Alexander Gould

Alexander Gould

Gould in October 2009
Born Alexander Jerome Gould
May 4, 1994
Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality American
Occupation Actor
Years active 1996–present
Notable work Nemo in Finding Nemo
Bambi in Bambi II
Twitch in How to Eat Fried Worms
Shane Botwin in Weeds

Alexander Jerome Gould (born May 4, 1994) is an American actor, best known for voicing Nemo in Finding Nemo, Twitch in How to Eat Fried Worms and Shane Botwin in Weeds.

Personal life

Gould was born in Los Angeles, to Tom and Valerie Gould. He has two younger sisters, Emma and Kelly, who are also actors. Gould practices Judaism, and is active in the Conservative Jewish youth group USY (he was president of his local USY synagogue chapter during his senior year of high school). He participated in Nativ, a gap year program, where he spent ten months living in Israel, including time in the Negev desert, teaching English to elementary school children.[1][2][3][4]

Gould is a student at Clark University in Massachusetts.[4][5]

Career

Gould made his acting debut at the age of 6 in the episode of Freaks and Geeks where Lindsey gets high and then has to babysit his character of Ronnie. Gould made his feature film debut in They, and is best remembered for voicing the title character of Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo. On television, Gould played the role as Shane Botwin on Showtime's Weeds, as well as guest-starring on Ally McBeal, Malcolm in the Middle, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Supernatural and Pushing Daisies. He starred as David Collins in the WB remake of the soap opera Dark Shadows, but its pilot episode was rejected by the WB Television Network and never aired.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1998 City of Angels Little Boy Uncredited
2000 Mexico City Peter Cobb
2002 They Young Billy
2003 Finding Nemo Nemo Voice
25th Annual Young Artist Awards for Best Performance in a Voice-Over Role - Young Actor
2003 Exploring the Reef Nemo (voice) Short
2005 Diary of a Worm Narrator (voice) Short
2005 Wheelmen Arthur
2006 Bambi II Bambi (voice)
2006 Curious George Kid (voice)
2006 How to Eat Fried Worms Twitch 28th Annual Young Artist Awards for Best Young Ensemble in a Feature Film (shared)
2011 Ties Evan Short
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1996 Bailey Kipper's P.O.V. Young Bailey Kipper Episode: "Teacher, Teacher"
2000 Freaks and Geeks Ronnie Episode: "Chokin' and Tokin"
2000 Malcolm in the Middle Egg Episode: "Funeral"
2000 The Geena Davis Show Sam Episode: "Cooties"
2001 Ally McBeal Ben 2 episodes
2001 7th Heaven Pee Wee #1 Episode: "Apologize"
2001 The Day the World Ended Young Ben Movie
2001 Family Law Josh Deverell Episode: "Angel's Flight"
2002 Even Stevens Grayson Episode: "Little Mr. Sacktown"
2002 Boomtown Tom at age 8 Episode: "Reelin' in the Years"
2004 Dark Shadows David Collins Unaired
Movie
2004 Oliver Beene Young Ted Episode: "Soup to Nuts"
2005–2012 Weeds Shane Botwin 102 episodes
Nominated - 13th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (shared)
28th Annual Young Artist Awards for Best Performance in a TV Series - Supporting Young Actor
Nominated - 29th Annual Young Artist Awards for Best Performance in a TV Series - Supporting Young Actor
Nominated - 15th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (shared)
2005 Duck Dodgers Boy/Young Son (voice) 2 episodes
2007 Criminal Minds Jeremy Jacobs Episode: Episode: "Seven Seconds"
2008 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Jack Trembley Episode: "Unorthodox"
2008 Pushing Daisies Elliott McQuoddy Episode: "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy"
2009 Supernatural Cole Griffiths Episode: "Death Takes a Holiday"
2010 The Life & Times of Tim Boy Scout (voice) Episode: "The Girl Scout Incident/Rodney Has a Wife?"
Direct-to-video
Year Title Role Notes
2007 The Librarian from the Black Lagoon Hubie Narrator
Short
2013 Superman Unbound Jimmy Olsen Voice

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