Tenzing Norgay Trainor

Tenzing Norgay Trainor (born September 4, 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 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. to Clark Tulley Trainor and Deki Tenzing Norgay. He is of Nepalese and Tibetan descent on his mother's side. His maternal grandfather is Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who, together with Edmund Hillary, was the first to climb Mount Everest.

He grew up in Florida where he, at the age of eight, started acting at Paladin Playhouse Theater in Fort Lauderdale theater camp. 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 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. In 2022, he appeared 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.

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