Andrew Barth Feldman
Andrew Barth Feldman is an actor, born 2002.
Broadway arrived before he had finished school. Feldman came up through local musical theatre, won a Jimmy Award for his high school's production of Catch Me If You Can in 2018, and was playing the title role in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway the following year, which is a compressed version of a path that normally takes a decade.
The screen work started small, a student in White Noise and a supporting part in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and then No Hard Feelings gave him the role the career currently rests on. Percy is a nineteen-year-old so sheltered he barely knows how to be looked at, and the part could easily have been a joke played at his expense. Feldman does something more useful with it. He plays the anxiety as real, so the comedy arrives from the collision rather than from the audience laughing down at him, and the film is far better for it.
Since then he has mostly been used for warmth. Neil Levy in Saturday Night, an ensemble full of people doing impressions, where his job is to be the sincere one. Alex in A Tourist's Guide to Love, Ethan in A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, the voice of Dopey and the narration in Snow White. It is early, the range is not yet proven outside a single register, and that register is unusually well judged.
Movies (6)
TV (2)
Where to start with Andrew Barth Feldman
No Hard Feelings is the one to watch and the only one that really argues for him: a broad studio comedy that works because he underplays while everything around him is loud. Follow it with Saturday Night, where he has less to do but the film is more interesting, a whole ensemble reconstructing one very long night in 1975. White Noise is the arthouse credit and he is barely in it, so treat it as a footnote rather than a showcase. Snow White is the big-budget one and the voice work is decent inside a film with other problems. A Tourist's Guide to Love and A Very Jonas Christmas Movie are precisely what their titles promise, and if that is your genre he is a good reason to pick them over the alternatives.