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

Biography

Personal life

Ashton was born Joseph Ashton Valencia 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 sometimes starting player on the varsity soccer team, and participated in the Olympic Developmental Soccer Team program at the regional level in England.

He is a graduate of the University of La Verne, where he majored in TV and radio broadcasting. Joseph is also currently the Junior Varstiy coach for boys soccer at Diamond Bar High School. Joseph is also an active member in the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, and continues to play soccer for his college team.

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.

Selected filmography

External links

• Joseph Ashton at the Internet Movie Database
• Joseph Ashton at Allmovie
• Official site