Age: 16
male
Alkaio (Al-KAY-oh) Thiele is a 12-year old actor, singer, and beatboxer from the San Francisco Bay Area and has been musical since he could make noise. At two years old he tied a shoebox around his neck and transformed into Disney's youngest marching drummer in his own reenactment of the Soundsational Parade! Every microphone (or even a look-alike) sent him into a rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" or "The Star-Spangled Banner." Alkaio dabbled in performing arts at different points through his childhood, but it wasn't until he found I Can Do That! Performing Arts Center and was cast in their main stage High School Musical production, that he developed and decided to pursue a passion for acting. His deep emotion and introspection following his final performance led him to this conclusion: he never wanted that feeling to end. Within 3 months of making the decision to professionally pursue acting, he booked back-to-back feature film roles. His charisma, improvisation, and humor have made him an asset to each production and he has enjoyed the wide variety of--and the new friendships from--each new opportunity. When Alkaio isn't acting he is playing team sports, singing or beatboxing, biking, hiking the California landscape, or playing out front with the neighborhood kids until the streetlights come on.
Alkaio Thiele
Gumball
for Gumball in Harold and the Purple Crayon (TL-JRA)
Suggested by jonathanahnberg2
Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 2024 American live-action/animated fantasy comedy film directed by Carlos Saldanha (in his live-action feature-length directorial debut) from a screenplay by David Guion, Michael Handelman, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand based on the 1955 children's book by Crockett Johnson. Combining live-action and animation, the film stars Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, Ringo Starr, Zooey Deschanel and Jon Lovitz, This film takes place in the real life world of Rhode Island where fictional and cartoon characters live alongside real humans. In the film, After he draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds that he has a lot to learn about real life. Later, Reformed chihuahua and Cartoon All-Star member Jonathan temporarily relocates his friends the Cartoon All-Stars to the real world when his old rival Gary Natwick seeks revenge. Meanwhile, Lyla and her friends, are augmented with superpowers from the Cartoon All-Star League (CASL), forming a superhero initiative known as the Super Loopsters.
