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Tenzing Norgay Trainor
Trainor (second from the right) during TIFF (2019)
Born	(2001-09-04) September 4, 2001 (age 23) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2012–present
Television	Liv and Maddie Good Luck Charlie Abominable
Relatives	Tenzing Norgay (grandfather) Jamling Tenzing Norgay (uncle) Tashi Tenzing (cousin)

Tenzing Norgay Trainor (born 4 September 2001) is an American actor. He gained notability for his role as Parker Rooney on the Disney Channel television show Liv and Maddie (2013–2017) and the voice of Jin in the animated adventure film Abominable (2019) and its follow-up Abominable and the Invisible City (2022–2023). He also appeared in TV shows including Good Luck Charlie, The Jadagrace Show, and Stevie TV.

Career

Tenzing Norgay Trainor was born on 4 September 2001 in Los Angeles, California to Clark Tulley Trainor and Deki Tenzing Norgay. He is Nepalese, Tibetan by descent. His maternal grandfather is Tenzing Norgay, who, together with Edmund Hillary, was the first to climb Mount Everest. He has two younger brothers, Kalden and Yonden, and played football since the age of six.

He grew up in Florida where he, at the age of eight, started acting at Paladin Playhouse Theater in Fort Lauderdale theater camp. His father forced him into the theater camp so that he could learn how to speak in front of people. After returning to California, he started his acting career with appearances in TV series like Stevie TV. His breakthrough came in 2013 in the series Liv and Maddie where he played the recurring role of Parker Rooney, Liv and Maddie's younger brother. In 2014, he made a guest appearance as Parker Rooney in the Jessie crossover episode "Jessie's Aloha Holidays with Parker and Joey", along with Joey Bragg as Joey Rooney. In 2017, Liv and Maddie ended after four years.

In 2018, Trainor was cast as Jimbo, a boy completely lost in modern-day society, in two episodes of the Nickelodeon series Knight Squad. In 2019, he starred in the short comedy film Clueless, for which he won an Independent Shorts Award as Best Child/Young Actor. In the animated feature film Abominable, he voiced the character of Jin who, similar to Tenzing Norgay, climbs Mount Everest to bring back a Yeti to his family. He reprised his role in the animated series Abominable and the Invisible City. In 2022, he appeard as Gavin, a member of "The Afterlifers", in the Netflix series Boo, Bitch with Lana Condor and Zoe Colletti. In 2023, he starred in the single eight-episode series of Freeridge.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

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17. "DreamWorks Debuts Trailer & Cast List for 'Abominable and the Invisible City'". 2022-09-07. Archived from the original on 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
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19. Hailu, Selome (2022-11-04). "'On My Block' Spinoff 'Freeridge' at Netflix Casts Tenzing Norgay Trainor and Peggy Blow (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
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External links

• Tenzing Norgay Trainor at IMDb

• 21st-century American singers
• Male actors from Florida
• American male television actors
• Living people
• Walt Disney Records artists
• 21st-century American male actors
• 2001 births
• American actors of Asian descent