Joshua Ryan "Josh" Zuckerman (born April 1, 1985) is an American actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

. Perhaps he is known for playing Mark Hughgrant in the science fiction TV series Kyle XY

Kyle XY

Kyle XY is an American television series with a science fiction premise and mystery-drama style. The central character is a teenage boy who awakens naked in a forest outside Seattle, Washington, with no more knowledge or abilities than a newborn. He is taken in by a family and given the name Kyle...

, Eddie Orlofsky for Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...

  both aired into ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 and currently Max Miller in the spin-off of 1990's TV adaption 90210

90210 (TV series)

90210 is an American teen drama television series developed by Rob Thomas, Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, and the fourth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise created by Darren Star. 90210 is the first series produced by CBS Productions under the company's re-launch, but is now produced by CBS...

 aired on The CW.

Life and career

Zuckerman was born and raised in the town of Los Altos, California

Los Altos, California

Los Altos is a city at the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The city is in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 28,976 according to the 2010 census....

, where he attended Bullis-Purisima Elementary School. He moved to Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

 to pursue an acting career after finishing the seventh grade at Egan Junior High School

Egan Junior High School

Ardis G. Egan Junior High School is a middle school for seventh and eighth graders in Los Altos, California. A lot of people go here. It is part of the Los Altos School District. Most of Egan's five hundred students live in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, though a few live in Mountain View. Egan is...

, where he had been elected student body president. He also attended The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California

Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California

Sherman Oaks is an affluent district in the San Fernando Valley area of the city of Los Angeles, California. In contrast to much of the Valley, the area is relatively urbanized, with commercial skyscrapers along Ventura Boulevard as well as scattered throughout...

 and as of 2003 was attending Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 where he is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon

Delta Kappa Epsilon

Delta Kappa Epsilon is a fraternity founded at Yale College in 1844 by 15 men of the sophomore class who had not been invited to join the two existing societies...

 Fraternity.

He played Eddie Orlofsky, "the Fairview strangler" on the hit dramedy Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...

. Zuckerman was cast into a recurring role in the CW

The CW Television Network

The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...

 series 90210

90210 (TV series)

90210 is an American teen drama television series developed by Rob Thomas, Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, and the fourth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise created by Darren Star. 90210 is the first series produced by CBS Productions under the company's re-launch, but is now produced by CBS...

 playing the role as Max Miller.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Return to the Secret Garden	Timothie	First feature film
2001	'Twas the Night 'Twas the Night 'Twas the Night is a 2001 Disney Channel Original Movie released in December for the Christmas holiday. Disney Channel has aired the film every year sometime in December...	Danny Wrigley	Disney Channel Original Movie
2002	Austin Powers in Goldmember Austin Powers in Goldmember Austin Powers in Goldmember is a 2002 American spy comedy film and the third installment of the Austin Powers series starring Mike Myers in the title role. The movie was directed by Jay Roach, and co-written by Mike Myers and Michael McCullers. Myers also plays the roles of Dr. Evil, Goldmember,...	Young Dr. Evil	Gross Revenue: $296,655,431
2002	I Was a Teenage Faust I Was a Teenage Faust I Was a Teenage Faust is a 2002 made for TV film of an adolescent who sells his soul to the devil to achieve popularity. It was directed by Thom Eberhardt and although the film takes place in Indiana, it was filmed in south-western British Columbia.-Plot:...	Brendan Willy	Showtime Original Movie
2004	Surviving Christmas Surviving Christmas Surviving Christmas is a 2004 comedy film, directed by Mike Mitchell and starring Ben Affleck. Despite being a Christmas movie, DreamWorks SKG released the movie towards the end of October. This was due to it being advanced from December 2003 to avoid clashing with Affleck's other film, Paycheck....	Brian Valco	Gross Revenue: $14,793,624
2005	Feast Feast (film) Feast is a 2005 black comedy horror film, a result of Project Greenlights third season, the amateur filmmaking documentary series and contest. The winning team was composed of writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, and director John Gulager...	Hot Wheels	Gross Revenue: $658,573
2005	Pretty Persuasion Pretty Persuasion Pretty Persuasion is a 2005 American black comedy/satirical film about a 15-year-old schoolgirl who makes an allegation of sexual harassment against her drama teacher. The film's tagline is: "Revenge knows no mercy." It was written by Skander Halim and directed by Marcos Siega...	Josh Horowitz	Gross Revenue: 537,366
2009	Sex Drive Sex Drive (film) Sex Drive is a 2008 sex comedy film about a high school graduate who goes on a cross-country road trip to hook up with a girl he met online. It is based on the novel All the Way, by Andy Behrens. The film was directed by Sean Anders, and stars Josh Zuckerman, Clark Duke, Amanda Crew, and Katrina...	Ian Lafferty	Gross Revenue: 18,755,936
2011	Storage	Ethan	Post- production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Mr. Sunshine	Jimmy Lincon	Guest star episode; "Lingerie Football"
2011–present	90210 90210 (TV series) 90210 is an American teen drama television series developed by Rob Thomas, Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, and the fourth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise created by Darren Star. 90210 is the first series produced by CBS Productions under the company's re-launch, but is now produced by CBS...	Max Miller	Recurring Season 3-present - Benefits of Doubts -Let The Game Begins -Up in Smoke -To The Future -The Prom Before the Storm -Women on the Verge  -Nerdy Little Secrets -The Enchanted Donkey -Blue Naomi -It's High Time -Revenge of the Nerd
2009–2010	Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...	Eddie Orlofsky	Recurring (11 Episodes) - I Guess This Is Goodbye - The Ballad of Booth - A Little Night Music - Epiphany - We All Deserve to Die - The Chase - You Gotta Get a Gimmick - Would I Think of Suicide? - The Coffee Cup - The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues - Never Judge a Lady by Her Lover
2008–2009	Kyle XY Kyle XY Kyle XY is an American television series with a science fiction premise and mystery-drama style. The central character is a teenage boy who awakens naked in a forest outside Seattle, Washington, with no more knowledge or abilities than a newborn. He is taken in by a family and given the name Kyle...	Mark Cullin	Recurring (13 Episodes) - Bringing Down the House - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Chemistry 101 - Welcome to Latnok In the Company of Men - Electric Kiss - Psychic Friend - It Happened One Night - I've Had the Time of My Life - Hello... - Primary Colors - First Cut Is the Deepest - Between the Rack and a Hard Place
2007	Boston Legal Boston Legal Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley, which was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC...	Michael Scanlon	Guest star episode; "Trial of the Century"
	CSI: Miami CSI: Miami CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....	Leo Donwel	Guest star 3 episode; - Bloodline - Broken Home - Internal Affairs
	Close to Home	Ben Murphy	Guest star episode; "Maternal Instinct"
	Standoff Standoff (TV series) Standoff is an American drama series that premiered on the Fox network on September 5, 2006. Created by Craig Silverstein, the series focused on an FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit whose members negotiated hostage situations and shared relationships. The show was produced by 20th Century Fox Television...	Cary Steckler	Guest star episode; "Peer Group"
2005	House House (TV series) House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...	Keen Student	Guest star episode; "Three Stories"
	NYPD Blue NYPD Blue NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...	James 'Swirly' Kilik	Guest star 2 episodes ; - "A Little Dad'll Do Ya" - "Oh, Mama!"
	The West Wing The West Wing (TV series) The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999 to May 14, 2006...	Billy Fernandez	Guest star episode; "Isaac and Ishmael"
2001	The Nightmare Room The Nightmare Room The Nightmare Room is an American children's anthology horror series that aired on Kids' WB. The series was based on the short-lived book series The Nightmare Room children's books created by Goosebumps author, R.L. Stine. The Nightmare Room originally aired from August 31, 2001, to March 16, 2002,...	Jeremy	Guest star episode; "Four Eyes"
2000	Judging Amy Judging Amy Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly...	Rob Bird	Guest star episode; "Beating the Bounds"

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